"Everyone Welcome. . ."

Third Thursday

 April 17 at 1:00 p.m.

 

Neil Paul

Reading & Discussing Poetry

of

Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

 

"Coffee pot's always on..."

 

 

[Informal ~ If you can come for only a short time, that is okay!]

 

  



Spring
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

~ Gerard Manley Hopkins  (1844 - 1889)  Victorian poet, A Philosopher's Stone and Other Poems.