Gerard Manley Hopkins (Джерард Мэнли Хопкинс)

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

As king fishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is --
Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces. 

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s other poems:

  1. Harry Ploughman
  2. Hurrahing in Harvest
  3. Felix Randal
  4. Barnfloor and Winepress
  5. The Loss of the Eurydice

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