[ { "title": "Spring", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Nothing is so beautiful as spring—", " When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;", " Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush", "Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring", "The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;", " The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush", " The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush", "With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.", "What is all this juice and all this joy?", " A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning", "In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy,", " Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,", "Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,", " Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "The Sea Took Pity", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "The sea took pity: it interposed with doom:", "‘I have tall daughters dear that heed my hand:", "Let Winter wed one, sow them in her womb,", "And she shall child them on the New-world strand.’", ". . . . . . . ." ], "linecount": "5" }, { "title": "Thee, God, I Come from", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Thee, God, I come from, to thee go,", "All day long I like fountain flow", "From thy hand out, swayed about", "Mote-like in thy mighty glow.", "", "What I know of thee I bless,", "As acknowledging thy stress", "On my being and as seeing", "Something of thy holiness.", "", "Once I turned from thee and hid,", "Bound on what thou hadst forbid;", "Sow the wind I would; I sinned:", "I repent of what I did.", "", "Bad I am, but yet thy child.", "Father, be thou reconciled.", "Spare thou me, since I see", "With thy might that thou art mild.", "", "I have life before me still", "And thy purpose to fulfil;", "Yea a debt to pay thee yet:", "Help me, sir, and so I will.", "", "But thou bidst, and just thou art,", "Me shew mercy from my heart", "Towards my brother, every other", "Man my mate and counterpart.", ". . . . . . . ." ], "linecount": "25" }, { "title": "Brothers", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "How lovely the elder brother's", "Life all laced in the other's,", "Lóve-laced!—what once I well", "Witnessed; so fortune fell.", "When Shrovetide, two years gone,", "Our boys' plays brought on", "Part was picked for John,", "Young Jóhn: then fear, then joy", "Ran revel in the elder boy.", "Their night was come now; all", "Our company thronged the hall;", "Henry, by the wall,", "Beckoned me beside him:", "I came where called, and eyed him", "By meanwhiles; making my play", "Turn most on tender byplay.", "For, wrung all on love's rack,", "My lad, and lost in Jack,", "Smiled, blushed, and bit his lip;", "Or drove, with a diver's dip,", "Clutched hands down through clasped knees—", "Truth's tokens tricks like these,", "Old telltales, with what stress", "He hung on the imp's success.", "Now the other was bráss-bóld:", "Hé had no work to hold", "His heart up at the strain;", "Nay, roguish ran the vein.", "Two tedious acts were past;", "Jack's call and cue at last;", "When Henry, heart-forsook,", "Dropped eyes and dared not look.", "Eh, how áll rúng!", "Young dog, he did give tongue!", "But Harry—in his hands he has flung", "His tear-tricked cheeks of flame", "For fond love and for shame.", " Ah Nature, framed in fault,", "There 's comfort then, there 's salt;", "Nature, bad, base, and blind,", "Dearly thou canst be kind;", "There dearly thén, deárly,", "I'll cry thou canst be kind." ], "linecount": "43" }, { "title": "Moonrise", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:", "The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle,", "Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless,", "Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow, of dark Maenefa the mountain;", "", "A cusp still clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him, entangled him, not quite utterly.", "This was the prized, the desirable sight, unsought, presented so easily,", "Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me, eyelid and eyelid of slumber." ], "linecount": "7" }, { "title": "To What Serves Mortal Beauty?", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "To what serves mortal beauty '—dangerous; does set danc-", "ing blood—the O-seal-that-so ' feature, flung prouder form", "Than Purcell tune lets tread to? ' See: it does this: keeps warm", "Men's wits to the things that are; ' what good means—where a glance", "Master more may than gaze, ' gaze out of countenance.", "Those lovely lads once, wet-fresh ' windfalls of war's storm,", "How then should Gregory, a father, ' have gleanèd else from swarm-", "ed Rome? But God to a nation ' dealt that day's dear chance.", " To man, that needs would worship ' block or barren stone,", "Our law says: Love what are ' love's worthiest, were all known;", "World's loveliest—men's selves. Self ' flashes off frame and face.", "What do then? how meet beauty? ' Merely meet it; own,", "Home at heart, heaven's sweet gift; ' then leave, let that alone.", "Yea, wish that though, wish all, ' God's better beauty, grace." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Heaven--Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "I have desired to go", " Where springs not fail,", "To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail", " And a few lilies blow.", "", " And I have asked to be", " Where no storms come,", "Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,", " And out of the swing of the sea." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "To a Young Child", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Margaret, are you grieving", "Over Goldengrove unleaving?", "Leaves, like the things of man, you", "With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?", "Ah! as the heart grows older", "It will come to such sights colder", "By and by, nor spare a sigh", "Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;", "And yet you will weep and know why.", "Now no matter, child, the name:", "Sorrow's springs are the same.", "Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed", "What heart heard of, ghost guessed:", "It is the blight man was born for,", "It is Margaret you mourn for." ], "linecount": "15" }, { "title": "The Child Is Father To The Man", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "'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." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "What Being in Rank-Old Nature", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been", "That hйre pйrsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?—", "A bush-browed, beetle-brуwed bнllow is it?", "With a soъth-wйsterly wнnd blъstering, with a tide rolls reels", "Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen", "Ъnderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.", ". . . . . . . .", "Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling" ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "The Sea And The Skylark", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "On ear and ear two noises too old to end", " Trench—right, the tide that ramps against the shore;", " With a flood or a fall, low lull-off or all roar,", "Frequenting there while moon shall wear and wend.", "Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend,", " His rash-fresh re-winded new-skeinèd score", " In crisps of curl off wild winch whirl, and pour", "And pelt music, till none 's to spill nor spend.", "", "How these two shame this shallow and frail town!", " How ring right out our sordid turbid time,", "Being pure! We, life's pride and cared-for crown,", "", " Have lost that cheer and charm of earth's past prime:", "Our make and making break, are breaking, down", " To man's last dust, drain fast towards man's first slime." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Easter Communion", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast:", "God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips.", "You striped in secret with breath-taking whips,", "Those crooked rough-scored chequers may be pieced", "To crosses meant for Jesu's; you whom the East", "With draught of thin and pursuant cold so nips", "Breathe Easter now; you serged fellowships,", "You vigil-keepers with low flames decreased,", "", "God shall o'er-brim the measures you have spent", "With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze", "And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment", "Give myrrhy-threaded golden folds of ease.", "Your scarce-sheathed bones are weary of being bent:", "Lo, God shall strengthen all the feeble knees." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "A Brother and Sister", "", "", "O I admire and sorrow! The heart’s eye grieves", "Discovering you, dark tramplers, tyrant years.", "A juice rides rich through bluebells, in vine leaves,", "And beauty’s dearest veriest vein is tears.", "", "Happy the father, mother of these! Too fast:", "Not that, but thus far, all with frailty, blest", "In one fair fall; but, for time’s aftercast,", "Creatures all heft, hope, hazard, interest.", "", "And are they thus? The fine, the fingering beams", "Their young delightful hour do feature down", "That fleeted else like day-dissolvиd dreams", "Or ringlet-race on burling Barrow brown.", "", "She leans on him with such contentment fond", "As well the sister sits, would well the wife;", "His looks, the soul’s own letters, see beyond,", "Gaze on, and fall directly forth on life.", "", "But ah, bright forelock, cluster that you are", "Of favoured make and mind and health and youth,", "Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul’s star?", "There’s none but truth can stead you. Christ is truth.", "", "There ’s none but good can bй good, both for you", "And what sways with you, maybe this sweet maid;", "None good but God—a warning wavиd to", "One once that was found wanting when Good weighed.", "", "Man lives that list, that leaning in the will", "No wisdom can forecast by gauge or guess,", "The selfless self of self, most strange, most still,", "Fast furled and all foredrawn to No or Yes.", "", "Your feast of; that most in you earnest eye", "May but call on your banes to more carouse.", "Worst will the best. What worm was here, we cry,", "To have havoc-pocked so, see, the hung-heavenward boughs?", "", "Enough: corruption was the world’s first woe.", "What need I strain my heart beyond my ken?", "O but I bear my burning witness though", "Against the wild and wanton work of men.", ". . . . . . ." ], "linecount": "38" }, { "title": "The Starlight Night", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!", " O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!", " The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!", "Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes!", "The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!", " Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!", " Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!—", "Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.", "Buy then! bid then!—What?—Prayer, patience, aims, vows.", "Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!", " Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!", "These are indeed the barn; withindoors house", "The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse", " Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Moonless darkness stands between", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Moonless darkness stands between.", "Past, the Past, no more be seen!", "But the Bethlehem-star may lead me", "To the sight of Him Who freed me", "From the self that I have been.", "Make me pure, Lord: Thou art holy;", "Make me meek, Lord: Thou wert lowly;", "Now beginning, and alway:", "Now begin, on Christmas day." ], "linecount": "9" }, { "title": "The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down", "His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun", "Had swarthed about with lion-brown", "Before the Spring was done.", "", "His locks like all a ravel-rope’s-end,", "With hempen strands in spray—", "Fallow, foam-fallow, hanks—fall’n off their ranks,", "Swung down at a disarray.", "", "Or like a juicy and jostling shock", "Of bluebells sheaved in May", "Or wind-long fleeces on the flock", "A day off shearing day.", "", "Then over his turnиd temples—here—", "Was a rose, or, failing that,", "Rough-Robin or five-lipped campion clear", "For a beauty-bow to his hat,", "And the sunlight sidled, like dewdrops, like dandled diamonds", "Through the sieve of the straw of the plait.", ". . . . . . ." ], "linecount": "19" }, { "title": "To R. B.", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong", "Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame,", "Breathes once and, quenchèd faster than it came,", "Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song.", "Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she long", "Within her wears, bears, cares and moulds the same:", "The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim", "Now known and hand at work now never wrong.", " Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this;", "I want the one rapture of an inspiration.", "O then if in my lagging lines you miss", "The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation,", "My winter world, that scarcely breathes that bliss", "Now, yields you, with some sighs, our explanation." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "My prayers must meet a brazen heaven", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "My prayers must meet a brazen heaven", "And fail and scatter all away.", "Unclean and seeming unforgiven", "My prayers I scarcely call to pray.", "I cannot buoy my heart above;", "Above I cannot entrance win.", "I reckon precedents of love,", "But feel the long success of sin.", "", "My heaven is brass and iron my earth:", "Yea, iron is mingled with my clay,", "So harden'd is it in this dearth", "Which praying fails to do away.", "Nor tears, nor tears this clay uncouth", "Could mould, if any tears there were.", "A warfare of my lips in truth,", "Battling with God, is now my prayer." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Pied Beauty", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Glory be to God for dappled things—", " For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;", " For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;", "Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;", " Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;", " And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.", "", "All things counter, original, spare, strange;", " Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)", " With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;", "He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:", " Praise him." ], "linecount": "11" }, { "title": "That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-", "built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they throng; they glitter in marches.", "Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches,", "Shivelights and shadowtackle in long ' lashes lace, lance, and pair.", "Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ' ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare", "Of yestertempest's creases; in pool and rut peel parches", "Squandering ooze to squeezed ' dough, crust, dust; stanches, starches", "Squadroned masks and manmarks ' treadmire toil there", "Footfretted in it. Million-fuelèd, ' nature's bonfire burns on.", "But quench her bonniest, dearest ' to her, her clearest-selvèd spark", "Man, how fast his firedint, ' his mark on mind, is gone!", "Both are in an unfathomable, all is in an enormous dark", "Drowned. O pity and indig ' nation! Manshape, that shone", "Sheer off, disseveral, a star, ' death blots black out; nor mark", " Is any of him at all so stark", "But vastness blurs and time ' beats level. Enough! the Resurrection,", "A heart's-clarion! Away grief's gasping, ' joyless days, dejection.", " Across my foundering deck shone", "A beacon, an eternal beam. ' Flesh fade, and mortal trash", "Fall to the residuary worm; ' world's wildfire, leave but ash:", " In a flash, at a trumpet crash,", "I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and", "This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,", " Is immortal diamond." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.", "What hours, O what black hours we have spent", "This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!", "And more must, in yet longer light's delay.", "", "With witness I speak this. But where I say", "Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament", "Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent", "To dearest him that lives alas! away.", "", "I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decrees", "Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;", "Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.", "", "Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see", "The lost are like this, and their scourge to be", "As I am mine, their sweating selves, but worse." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "The Loss Of The Eurydice", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Foundered March 24. 1878", "", "", " 1", "", "The Eurydice—it concerned thee, O Lord:", "Three hundred souls, O alas! on board,", " Some asleep unawakened, all un-", "warned, eleven fathoms fallen", "", " 2", "", "Where she foundered! One stroke", "Felled and furled them, the hearts of oak!", " And flockbells off the aerial", "Downs' forefalls beat to the burial.", "", " 3", "", "For did she pride her, freighted fully, on", "Bounden bales or a hoard of bullion?—", " Precious passing measure,", "Lads and men her lade and treasure.", "", " 4", "", "She had come from a cruise, training seamen—", "Men, boldboys soon to be men:", " Must it, worst weather,", "Blast bole and bloom together?", "", " 5", "", "No Atlantic squall overwrought her", "Or rearing billow of the Biscay water:", " Home was hard at hand", "And the blow bore from land.", "", " 6", "", "And you were a liar, O blue March day.", "Bright sun lanced fire in the heavenly bay;", " But what black Boreas wrecked her? he", "Came equipped, deadly-electric,", "", " 7", "", "A beetling baldbright cloud thorough England", "Riding: there did stores not mingle? and", " Hailropes hustle and grind their", "Heavengravel? wolfsnow, worlds of it, wind there?", "", " 8", "", "Now Carisbrook keep goes under in gloom;", "Now it overvaults Appledurcombe;", " Now near by Ventnor town", "It hurls, hurls off Boniface Down.", "", " 9", "", "Too proud, too proud, what a press she bore!", "Royal, and all her royals wore.", " Sharp with her, shorten sail!", "Too late; lost; gone with the gale.", "", " 10", "", "This was that fell capsize,", "As half she had righted and hoped to rise", " Death teeming in by her portholes", "Raced down decks, round messes of mortals.", "", " 11", "", "Then a lurch forward, frigate and men;", "'All hands for themselves' the cry ran then;", " But she who had housed them thither", "Was around them, bound them or wound them with her.", "", " 12", "", "Marcus Hare, high her captain,", "Kept to her—care-drowned and wrapped in", " Cheer's death, would follow", "His charge through the champ-white water-in-a-wallow,", "", " 13", "", "All under Channel to bury in a beach her", "Cheeks: Right, rude of feature,", " He thought he heard say", "'Her commander! and thou too, and thou this way.'", "", " 14", "", "It is even seen, time's something server,", "In mankind's medley a duty-swerver,", " At downright 'No or yes?'", "Doffs all, drives full for righteousness.", "", " 15", "", "Sydney Fletcher, Bristol-bred,", "(Low lie his mates now on watery bed)", " Takes to the seas and snows", "As sheer down the ship goes.", "", " 16", "", "Now her afterdraught gullies him too down;", "Now he wrings for breath with the deathgush brown;", " Till a lifebelt and God's will", "Lend him a lift from the sea-swill.", "", " 17", "", "Now he shoots short up to the round air;", "Now he gasps, now he gazes everywhere;", " But his eye no cliff, no coast or", "Mark makes in the rivelling snowstorm.", "", " 18", "", "Him, after an hour of wintry waves,", "A schooner sights, with another, and saves,", " And he boards her in Oh! such joy", "He has lost count what came next, poor boy.—", "", " 19", "", "They say who saw one sea-corpse cold", "He was all of lovely manly mould,", " Every inch a tar,", "Of the best we boast our sailors are.", "", " 20", "", "Look, foot to forelock, how all things suit! he", "Is strung by duty, is strained to beauty,", " And brown-as-dawning-skinned", "With brine and shine and whirling wind.", "", " 21", "", "O his nimble finger, his gnarled grip!", "Leagues, leagues of seamanship", " Slumber in these forsaken", "Bones, this sinew, and will not waken.", "", " 22", "", "He was but one like thousands more,", "Day and night I deplore", " My people and born own nation,", "Fast foundering own generation.", "", " 23", "", "I might let bygones be—our curse", "Of ruinous shrine no hand or, worse,", " Robbery's hand is busy to", "Dress, hoar-hallowèd shrines unvisited;", "", " 24", "", "Only the breathing temple and fleet", "Life, this wildworth blown so sweet,", " These daredeaths, ay this crew, in", "Unchrist, all rolled in ruin—", "", " 25", "", "Deeply surely I need to deplore it,", "Wondering why my master bore it,", " The riving off that race", "So at home, time was, to his truth and grace", "", " 26", "", "That a starlight-wender of ours would say", "The marvellous Milk was Walsingham Way", " And one—but let be, let be:", "More, more than was will yet be.—", "", " 27", "", "O well wept, mother have lost son;", "Wept, wife; wept, sweetheart would be one:", " Though grief yield them no good", "Yet shed what tears sad truelove should.", "", " 28", "", "But to Christ lord of thunder", "Crouch; lay knee by earth low under:", " 'Holiest, loveliest, bravest,", "Save my hero, O Hero savest.", "", " 29", "", "And the prayer thou hearst me making", "Have, at the awful overtaking,", " Heard; have heard and granted", "Grace that day grace was wanted.'", "", " 30", "", "Not that hell knows redeeming,", "But for souls sunk in seeming", " Fresh, till doomfire burn all,", "Prayer shall fetch pity eternal." ], "linecount": "151" }, { "title": "Hope Holds to Christ", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ ". . . . . . . .", "Hope holds to Christ the mind’s own mirror out", "To take His lovely likeness more and more.", "It will not well, so she would bring about", "An ever brighter burnish than before", "And turns to wash it from her welling eyes", "And breathes the blots off all with sighs on sighs.", "Her glass is blest but she as good as blind", "Holds till hand aches and wonders what is there;", "Her glass drinks light, she darkles down behind,", "All of her glorious gainings unaware.", ". . . . . . . .", "I told you that she turned her mirror dim", "Betweenwhiles, but she sees herself not Him.", ". . . . . . . ." ], "linecount": "15" }, { "title": "The Soldier", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Yes. Why do we бll, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless", "Our redcoats, our tars? Both these being, the greater part,", "But frail clay, nay but foul clay. Here it is: the heart,", "Since, proud, it calls the calling manly, gives a guess", "That, hopes that, makesbelieve, the men must be no less;", "It fancies, feigns, deems, dears the artist after his art;", "And fain will find as sterling all as all is smart,", "And scarlet wear the spirit of wбr thйre express.", "", "Mark Christ our King. He knows war, served this soldiering through;", "He of all can handle a rope best. There he bides in bliss", "Now, and sйeing somewhйre some mбn do all that man can do,", "For love he leans forth, needs his neck must fall on, kiss,", "And cry 'O Christ-done deed! So God-made-flesh does too:", "Were I come o'er again' cries Christ 'it should be this'." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Spring & Fall: To A Young Child", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "Margaret, are you grieving", "Over Goldengrove unleaving?", "Leaves, like the things of man, you", "With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?", "Ah! as the heart grows older", "It will come to such sights colder", "By & by, nor spare a sigh", "Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;", "And yet you wíll weep & know why.", "Now no matter, child, the name:", "Sorrow's springs are the same.", "Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed", "What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed:", "It is the blight man was born for,", "It is Margaret you mourn for." ], "linecount": "15" }, { "title": "Peace", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,", "Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?", "When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I'll not play hypocrite", "To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but", "That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows", "Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?", "", "O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu", "Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,", "That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house", "He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,", " He comes to brood and sit." ], "linecount": "11" } ]