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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO R. B., by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong Last Line: Now, yields you, with some sighs, our explanation. Variant Title(s): To R.b. Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930) | |||
THE fine delight that fathers thought; the strong Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, Breathes once and, quenched 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR ROBERT BRIDGES by ANITA WINTZ ROBERT BRIDGES by HUMBERT WOLFE ABYSS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ANDROMEDA by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AS KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AT THE WEDDING MARCH by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879) by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS BROTHERS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS CARRION COMFORT by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS |
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