Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
86 PA RT O N E Without a tighter breathing And Zero at the Bone— Cordiality gives way to anguish (angstas in narrow, constricted ...
SYLLABLES OF EMILY DICKINSON 87 A Pit—but Heaven over it— And Heaven beside, and Heaven abroad, And yet a Pit— With Heaven over ...
88 own their carved names the rain-drop ploughs.” They’re not only dead and buried, but nature ’s eroding their very names, thei ...
NATURE SHADOWING THOMAS HARDY 89 human and rural circumstance are still loved as books and films: Far from the Madding Crowd, Th ...
90 PA RT O N E plume” that greets “the growing gloom.” While Coleridge ’s “Frost at Mid- night” has a “redbreast sit and sing / ...
NATURE SHADOWING THOMAS HARDY 91 Short lines drive home a stark seascape, as ocean “smites” the “heights” and three stresses mak ...
92 PA RT O N E Hardy’s weather and terrain didn’t fill notebooks of minute detail, as with Gerard Manley Hopkins. Chance and cha ...
NATURE SHADOWING THOMAS HARDY 93 years O!” and “Ah, no; the years, the years,” jolting us into silence with Time ’s derision. Bu ...
94 he poet-priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) loved naming the things of earth and sea and air, pinpointing, likening them ...
THE WORLD CHARGED BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 95 He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. Maybe “dappled” is famil ...
96 PA RT O N E The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a g ...
THE WORLD CHARGED BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 97 Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with bright ...
98 PA RT O N E As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tuc ...
THE WORLD CHARGED BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 99 confounded / Rural, rural keeping—folk, flocks, and flowers.” He liked walking to ...
100 PA RT O N E And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing o ...
THE WORLD CHARGED BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 101 wildly in front of a waterfall, dipping his hand and rolling rocks down its face, ...
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Balaglas, Isle of Man. Aug. 12, ’73. From Journals and Papers by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1937), copyright ...
THE WORLD CHARGED BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 103 The deep-down freshness even in painful turns of speech helped Hopkins pass throu ...
104 had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree.” Born in 1865, rooted i ...
NATURE VERSUS HISTORY IN W. B. YEATS 105 There midnight ’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet ...
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