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Pied Beauty, praise for dappled things

Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins Year: 1877 Length: 282 characters Difficulty: demanding Public domain

Hopkins prints accents over some vowels and joins words with hyphens, so this passage needs slow exact work.

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; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote Pied Beauty in 1877. Almost none of his poems appeared in his lifetime, and his friend Robert Bridges published the collected Poems in 1918, nearly thirty years later. Hopkins marked stresses with accents to show what he called sprung rhythm, and those marks stand in the printed text. Wikisource carries the 1918 edition.

About this text

Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote Pied Beauty in 1877. Almost none of his poems appeared in his lifetime, and his friend Robert Bridges published the collected Poems in 1918, nearly thirty years later. Hopkins marked stresses with accents to show what he called sprung rhythm, and those marks stand in the printed text. Wikisource carries the 1918 edition.

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Hopkins prints accents over some vowels and joins words with hyphens, so this passage needs slow exact work.

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