Hurrahing in Harvest

How autumn can help us ‘glean our Savior.’ /

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;
And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a
Rapturous love's greeting of realer, of rounder replies?

And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder
Majestic—as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet!—
These things, these things were here and but the beholder
Wanting; which two when they once meet,
The heart rears wings bold and bolder
And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest whose genius was not recognized until after his death. He is considered one of the finest of Victorian poets.

Follow The Behemoth on Twitter and Facebook.

Also in this Issue

Issue 8 / October 30, 2014
  1. Editors’ Note
  2. Heavenly Minded and Earthly Good

    Spiritual transformation has a lot to do with the brain. /

  3. The Gospel in Your Pocket

    In some ways the best that is yet to come already is. /

  4. Fall’s Barbarous Beauty

    From summer to school to the Savior via Gerard Manely Hopkins. /

  5. Wonder on the Web

    Links to amazing stuff

Issue Archives