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GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS



Cheery Beggar

BEYOND Mágdalen and by the Bridge, on a place called there the Plain,
    In Summer, in a burst of summertime
    Following falls and falls of rain,
When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower of
Those goldnails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime;

    The motion of that man’s heart is fine
    Whom want could not make píne, píne
That struggling should not sear him, a gift should cheer him
Like that poor pocket of pence, poor pence of mine.



Other poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Felix Randal

Spring

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.