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Poetry Tuesday!: "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Here's "God's Grandeur" (1877) by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).
For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:
- "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- "The Pulley" by George Herbert
- "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
- "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
- "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
- "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
- "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo
- "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger
- "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman
- "Узник" ("Uznik", "The Prisoner" or "The Captive") by Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Like shining from shook foil" is such a wonderful phrase.
Excellent job! This is one of my favorite poems.
The given link to Pushkin's "Uznik" is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTguetSASM
- which does not refer to anything by Pushkin, but rather to "A Shropshire Lad" by A. E. Houseman. It might be an idea to check the other links also.
Thanks, fixed.
Looks as though the Houseman poem link, number 11 in the list, was simply duplicated at number 12.
I'm greatly enjoying this weekly dose of culture.