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.-
. . . . . . . .

(C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
03/09/2017


Best Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

• The Sea And The Skylark
• To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life
• Summa
• The Handsome Heart
• That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection
• The Times Are Nightfall, Look, Their Light Grows Less
• Brothers
• On The Portrait Of Two Beautiful Young People
• Hope Holds To Christ The Minds Own Mirror Out
• Hurrahing In Harvest
• I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day
• In The Valley Of The Elwy
• Andromeda
• Gods Grandeur
• For A Picture Of St. Dorothea
• Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray
• Epithalamion
• Duns Scotuss Oxford
• Carrion Comfort
• Binsey Poplars
• Inversnaid