Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

17. March 2006, 13:08 Uhrgerard manley hopkinsrinabeana

I’m reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and this poem was quoted, so I thought I’d post it.

Pied Beauty
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-color 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 all trades, 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.

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