God’s Grandeur

Gerard Manley Hopkins * Track #6 On Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published

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Album Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

1918

God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The poem was written in 1877 at a time of huge progress in terms of industrialisation and materialism in Victorian England. Hopkins' dismay at the what he saw as the desecration of the natural world and the undermining of Christian and spiritual values is expressed in his distinctive style. It was w...

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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs--
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

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