Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IT WAS A HARD THING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a hard thing to undo this knot Last Line: It was a hard thing to undo this knot. Subject(s): Wales; Waterfalls; Welshmen; Welshwomen | ||||||||
It was a hard thing to undo this knot. The rainbow shines, but only in the thought Of him that looks. Yet not in that alone, For who makes rainbows by invention? And many standing round a waterfall See one bow each, yet not the same to all, But each a hand's breadth further than the next. The sun on falling waters writes the text Which yet is in the eye or in the thought. It was a hard thing to undo this knot. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON WALES VISITATION by ALLEN GINSBERG WELSH INCIDENT by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE by THOMAS GRAY THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT by THOMAS GRAY WELSH LANDSCAPE by RONALD STUART THOMAS ABYSS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS |
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