Gerard Manley Hopkins

Here you will find the Poem Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins

Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice

The dappled die-away
Cheek and wimpled lip, 
The gold-wisp, the airy-grey 
Eye, all in fellowship? 
This, all this beauty blooming,
This, all this freshness fuming, 
Give God while worth consuming. 

Both thought and thew now bolder 
And told by Nature: Tower; 
Head, heart, hand, heel, and shoulder
That beat and breathe in power? 
This pride of prime?s enjoyment 
Take as for tool, not toy meant 
And hold at Christ?s employment. 

The vault and scope and schooling
And mastery in the mind, 
In silk-ash kept from cooling, 
And ripest under rind? 
What life half lifts the latch of, 
What hell stalks towards the snatch of,
Your offering, with despatch, of!