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:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
9. "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo
10. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger
11. "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman
12. "Узник" ("Uznik", "The Prisoner" or "The Captive") by Aleksandr Pushkin

Comments

[SykesFive]

“Like shining from shook foil” is such a wonderful phrase.

[XEleison]

Excellent job! This is one of my favorite poems.

[Richard Smart]

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.

[Sasha Volokh]

Thanks, fixed.

[Richard Smart]

Looks as though the Houseman poem link, number 11 in the list, was simply duplicated at number 12.

[LegoAthos]

I’m greatly enjoying this weekly dose of culture.