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THE STARLIGHT NIGHT by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOOK AT THE STARS! LOOK, LOOK UP AT THE SKIES
Last Line: CHRIST HOME, CHRIST AND HIS MOTHER AND ALL HIS HALLOWS.
Subject(s): NIGHT; SUPERNATURAL; BEDTIME;

LOOK at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes!
The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!
Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!
Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare! --
Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.
Buy then! bid then! -- What? -- Prayer, patience, aims, vows.
Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!
Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!
These are indeed the barn; withindoors house
The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse
Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.




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