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Lulu
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 Mon Apr 02, 2001 8:23 pm
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No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch
of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs,
wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddled
in a main, a chief -
Woe, world-sorrow, on an
age-old anvil wince and sing --
Then lull, then leave off. Fury has
shrieked "No ling -
Ering! Let me be fell: force I
must be brief."
O' the mind, mind has mountains;
cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man fathomed.
Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor
does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep.
Here! creep,
wretch, under a comfort serves
in a whirlwind: all
life death does end and
each day dies with sleep.
"No Worst, There is None" (1884-1885)
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
[Edited 3 times, lastly by Lulu on 04-06-2001] |
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Lulu
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Mon Apr 02, 2001 8:32 pm
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Lulu
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Mon Apr 02, 2001 8:48 pm
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Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now, no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed.
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
"Spring and Fall" (1880) to a young child by
Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) |
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Lulu
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Wed Apr 04, 2001 6:53 pm
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Lulu
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Mon Apr 16, 2001 10:16 am
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