Gerard Manley Hopkins (Джерард Мэнли Хопкинс)

Spring

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. 

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

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

  • Alfred Tennyson (Альфред Теннисон) Spring (“Birds’ love and birds’ song”)
  • Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Spring (“Stern Winter now, by Spring repress’d”)
  • Christina Rossetti (Кристина Россетти) Spring (“Frost-locked all the winter”)
  • William Morris (Уильям Моррис) Spring (“Spring am I, too soft of heart”)
  • Isaac Rosenberg (Айзек Розенберг) Spring (“I walk and wonder”)
  • Andrew Lang (Эндрю Лэнг) Spring (“Now the bright crocus flames, and now”)
  • Robert Anderson (Роберт Андерсон) Spring (“The snow’s dissolv’d, the chilly winter’s fled”)
  • Francis Ledwidge (Фрэнсис Ледвидж) Spring (“Once more the lark with song and speed”)
  • Thomas Nashe (Томас Нэш) Spring (“Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year’s pleasant king”)
  • Janet Hamilton (Джанет Гамильтон) Spring (“Fairy Spring, in kirtle green”)
  • Alfred Douglas (Альфред Дуглас) Spring (“Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again!”)
  • William Campbell (Уильям Кэмпбелл) Spring (“There dwells a spirit in the budding year”)
  • Edna Millay (Эдна Миллей) Spring (“To what purpose, April, do you return again?”)
  • James Percival (Джеймс Персиваль) Spring (“AGAIN the infant flowers of Spring”)
  • Henry Timrod (Генри Тимрод) Spring (“Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air”)
  • John Lapraik (Джон Лапрейк) Spring (“THOU goddess of the blooming Spring”)




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