National Poetry Month: April 21st

April 21, 2012

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;
  Landscape plotted and pieced–fold, fallow, and plough;
    And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                 Praise him.
.

This poem was selected by Martha M. (Children’s Services)

Poetry Copyright Notice

Share

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Translate »