“She was by turns disorganized and inspiring, prickly and brilliant. She required her students to foot-stomp aloud the meter of favorite #poems, including ‘God’s Grandeur’ by #GerardManleyHopkins.” #RIP #AnnieDillard www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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“She was by turns disorganized and inspiring, prickly and brilliant. She required her students to foot-stomp aloud the meter of favorite #poems, including ‘God’s Grandeur’ by #GerardManleyHopkins.” #RIP #AnnieDillard www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, born today, 1844.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116998026512389038
Happy birthday, Gerard Manley Hopkins (b. 7/28/1844)!
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"No one is ever so poor that he is not owner of the skies and stars and everything wild that is to be found on the earth." Gerard Manley Hopkins.
10 quotes on his birthday.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/28-july-gerard-manley-hopkins-quotes.html
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CW: CW: Christian/religious poetry (not by me)
This was recommended to me by my undergrad adviser (may not be the right term, I mean the prof that was grading me on my honors thesis in undergrad) a decade ago.
I ended up not writing on it. I honestly struggled to understand it.
It's still a little hard to understand, but I think I get it a lot more now in this stage of life.
"Carrion Comfort" is a phrase that's been buzzing around my mind lately, for reasons I can't quite get into, but let's say I was thinking about how we as humans reach for lesser comforts when we're hurting.
(I'm doing well, btw, don't worry ;)
Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley HopkinsNot, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist — slack they may be — these last strands of man
In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan,
O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee?Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear.
Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod,
Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, chéer.
Cheer whom though? the hero whose heaven-handling flung me, fóot tród
Me? or me that fought him? O which one? is it each one? That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.#CarrionComfort #GerardManleyHopkins #Poetry #ChristianPoetry #ReligiousPoetry
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#GerardManleyHopkins,
"The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe":
I say that we are wound
With mercy round & round
As if with air: the same
Is Mary, more by name.
She, wild web, wondrous robe,
Mantles the guilty globe,
Since God has let dispense
Her prayers his providence...
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The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong
Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame,
Breathes once and, quenchèd faster than it came,
Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song.
Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she long
Within her wears, bears, cares and moulds the same:
The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim
Now known and hand at work now never wrong.
Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this;
I want the one rapture of an inspiration.
O then if in my lagging lines you miss
The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation,
My winter world, that scarcely breathes that bliss
Now, yields you, with some sighs, our explanation.-- Gerard Manley Hopkins, To R.B.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_of_Gerard_Manley_Hopkins/To_R._B.
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Today's poem:
Duns Scotus's Oxford
- by Gerard Manley Hopkinshttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/796013190436749312/duns-scotuss-oxford?source=share
#poetry #ImmaculateConception #JohnDunsScotus #GerardManleyHopkins
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"My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet."
#SelfCompassion #HealingWords #MentalHealth #EmotionalResilience
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#YESquotes: #GerardManleyHopkins/ Major Works
“Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise / You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile / Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size / At God knows when to God knows what…”
Let joy grow where it will. #MentalHealth #LetGoToGrow bit.ly/3I8l9qz
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#Datreveno #GerardManleyHopkins #Poezio
Je ĉi dato en 1844 naskiĝis Gerard Manley Hopkins, poeto, kies tre originalaj poemoj rompis la kutimajn ritmojn kaj metrojn de angla poezio, do inspirante aliajn sekvi. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins
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The Wreck of the Deutschland, verse 1, Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Thou mastering me
God! giver of breath and bread;
World's strand, sway of the sea;
Lord of living and dead;
Thou hast bound bones & veins in me, fastened me flesh,
And after it almost unmade, what with dread,
Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.”#TheWreckOfTheDeutschland #GerardManleyHopkins #poetry #alliteration