Social Commentaries
Cheery Beggar
From Poems (1918)
BEYOND Mágdalen and by the Bridge, on a place called
there the Plain,
In Summer, in a burst of summertime
Following falls and falls of rain,
When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower of
Those goldnails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime;
. . . . . . . .
The motion of that man's heart is fine
Whom want could not make píne, píne
That struggling should not sear him, a gift should cheer
him
Like that poor pocket of pence, poor pence of mine.
Codex Note
Unfinished: a fragment.
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MLA
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Cheery Beggar.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/59/.
Chicago
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Cheery Beggar.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/59/.
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