It’s Time to Rediscover the Power of Poetry, by Ellen Condict
Memorizing it has become a lost art in the age of the iPhone, but it can still awaken us to a deeper understanding of our world. *** It’s Time to Rediscover the Power of...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire
As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung...
Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Analytical Biography
This essay on the life and work of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), English poet and priest, was first published in The Poets’ Chantry by Katherine Brégy (1912). It does not attempt to cover every aspect of Hopkins’...
Richard Austin Recites Hopkins’ Poetry
Richard Austin Recites Hopkins’ Poetry Richard Austin grew up in the same corner of England as Gerard Manley Hopkins. Thus blessed with the correct native accent, he now recites Hopkins’ poetry all over the...
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins GLORY be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;...
Thou Art Indeed Just Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum: verumtamen justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c. THOU art indeed just, Lord, if I...
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins You may find it helpful to listen to Richard Austin’s excellent recitation of this poem. To Christ our Lord I...
God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins You may find it helpful to listen to Richard Austin’s excellent recitation of this poem. THE world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out,...
The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins
THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND by Gerard Manley Hopkins To the happy memory of five Franciscan Nuns exiles by the Falk Laws drowned between midnight and morning of Dec. 7th. 1875 PART THE FIRST...
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins is a favorite here at EIL, as his poems are especially lovely for memorization and copywork. We will be expanding our collection of his poetry in the...
