Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPELT FROM SIBYL'S LEAVES, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earnest, earthless, equal, attunable, vaulty, voluminous Last Line: Thoughts against thoughts in groans grind. Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets | ||||||||
EARNEST, earthless, equal, attuneable, vaulty, voluminous, stupendous Evening strains to be time's vast, ' womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night. Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, ' her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the height Waste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, ' stars principal, overbend us, Fire-featuring heaven. For earth ' her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as- tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; ' self in self steeded and pashed -- quite Disremembering, dismembering ' all now. Heart, you round me right With: O Our evening is over us; our night ' whelms, whelms, and will end us. Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ' damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black, Ever so black on it. Our tale, O our oracle! ' Let life, waned, ah let life wind Off her once skeined stained veined variety ' upon, all on two spools; part, pen, pack Now her all in two flocks, two folds -- black, white; ' right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind But these two; ware of a world where but these ' two tell, each off the other; of a rack Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, ' thoughts against thoughts in groans grind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEDITATION ON SAVIORS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE PROPHET by LUCILLE CLIFTON MERLIN'S PROPHESY by WILLIAM BLAKE THE NEW EZEKIEL by EMMA LAZARUS A WORM FED ON THE HEART OF CORINTH by ISAAC ROSENBERG SARAH'S CHOICE by ELEANOR WILNER A FRAGMENT FROM THE AGAMEMNON OF AESCHYLOS by AESCHYLUS THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 4 by MARK AKENSIDE ABYSS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS |
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