Spring & Fall: To A Young Child - A poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins


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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Spring & Fall: To A Young Child

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 & by, nor spare a sigh 
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; 
And yet you wíll weep & know why. 
Now no matter, child, the name: 
Sorrow's springs are the same. 
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed 
What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed: 
It is the blight man was born for, 
It is Margaret you mourn for.

Added: on February 6th, 2006 at 10:27 PM | Viewed: 2860 times | Comments (1)

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Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem: Spring & Fall: To A Young Child Volume: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Year: Published/Written in 1880 Comment 1 of 1, added on February 6th, 2006 at 10:27 PM. I remember a nun reading this poem to us in eighth grade. What did we know of grieving? What did we know of sorrow over lost youth? We were twelve. Yet she knew. Did she grieve and regret? Now, at 67, I do know. Judy Tinelli from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Spring & Fall: To A Young Child, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins with others on the Poetry Connection poetry forum!

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Spring & Fall: To A Young Child Volume: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Year: Published/Written in 1880 Last read: 2008-07-07 08:36:24 Viewed 2860 times. Added on February 6th, 2006 at 10:27 PM.

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