It's National Poetry Month
Post a favorite poem:
AS kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; | |
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 Whát I do is me: for that I came. | |
Í say móre: the just man justices; | |
Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces; | 10 |
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is— | |
Chríst—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 |
2 comments:
One of my all-time favorites. Thanks.
It is beautiful read aloud.
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