The Lantern Out Of Doors

Gerard Manley Hopkins * Track #9 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

The Lantern Out Of Doors by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Like its companion poem, The Candle Indoors, this poem also explores the idea of faith and the struggle with doubt. ‘The Lantern Out Of Doors’, however, is more positive. It is saying that, although aspects of life like relationships with other humans, are fleeting, what Christ offers humanity is su...

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SOMETIMES a lantern moves along the night,
That interests our eyes. And who goes there?
I think; where from and bound, I wonder, where,
With, all down darkness wide, his wading light?

Men go by me whom either beauty bright
In mould or mind or what not else makes rare:
They rain against our much-thick and marsh air
Rich beams, till death or distance buys them quite.

Death or distance soon consumes them: wind
What most I may eye after, be in at the end
I cannot, and out of sight is out of mind.

Christ minds: Christ's interest, what to avow or amend
There, éyes them, heart wánts, care haúnts, foot
fóllows kínd,
Their ránsom, théir rescue, ánd first, fást, last friénd.

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