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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SUMMER MALISON, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Maidens shall weep at merry morn
Last Line: Its dearest changed to bores.
Subject(s): Despair
First Line: Maidens shall weep at merry morn
Last Line: Its dearest changed to bores.
Subject(s): Despair
Maidens shall weep at merry morn,
And hedges break and lose the kine,
And field-flowers make the fields forlorn,
And noonday have a shallow shine,
And barley turn to weed and wild,
And seven ears crown the lodged corn,
And mother have no milk for child,
And father be overworn.
And John shall lie, where winds are dead,
And hate the ill-visaged cursing tars,
And James shall hate his faded red,
Grown wicked in the wicked wars.
No rains shall fresh the flats of sea,
Nor close the clayfields' sharded sores,
And every heart think loathingly
Its dearest changed to bores.
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