Pied Beauty

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 áll trádes, 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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

A devout Jesuit priest who struggled to reconcile his poetic ambitions with his religious vocation, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) used the term…

Grade levels

7-9 / Sec. 1-3

10-12 / Sec. 4 & 5 / CEGEP 1

Alycia Pirmohamed

On My Tongue

Bismillah is my first memory.

I became a bird in the Qur’an

at hardly eight years old.

I opened the dark green cover

and revealed the slippery

Adèle Barclay

RAINBOW ROCK-CLIMBING CLUB

I’m a gecko on a wall

that simulates a cliff

with rainbow grips

I’ll touch any colour

that’ll have me

midway is high enough

wary of emotional

Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers—

“Hope” is the thing with feathers —

That perches in the soul —

And sings the tune without the words —

Denise Riley

Under the Answering Sky

I can manage being alone,

can pace out convivial hope

across my managing ground.

Someone might call, later.

What do the dead make of us

that we’d flay ourselves trying

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Alycia Pirmohamed

On My Tongue

Adèle Barclay

RAINBOW ROCK-CLIMBING CLUB

Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers—

Denise Riley

Under the Answering Sky

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