Time & Brevity
The child is father to the man
From Poems (1918)
Time & Brevity
'The child is father to the man.'
How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
'The child is father to the man.'
No; what the poet did write ran,
'The man is father to the child.'
'The child is father to the man!'
How can he be? The words are wild.
Cite this poem
MLA
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “The child is father to the man.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/65/.
Chicago
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “The child is father to the man.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/65/.
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