...the marriage feast begun, And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse, not laboured-at, nor spun. GOD'S GRANDEUR The world is charged with the grandeur...rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And bears man's smudge, and shares man's smell;...

...bibliography indeed for a genuinely inspired poet, the most scrupulous word-artist of the nineteenth century ! The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil. These opening lines of a sonnet illustrate clearly Gerard Hopkins' spirit and method. Like that other...

...the marriage feast begun, And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse, not laboured-at, nor spun. GOD'S GRANDEUR The world is charged with the grandeur...rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And bears man's smudge, and shares man's smell;...

...indeed for a genuinely inspired poet, the most scrupulous wordartist of the nineteenth century 1 [180] The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil. These opening lines of a sonnet illustrate clearly Gerard Hopkins' spirit and method. Like that other...

...everything, but it shines through everything, for those with the eyes to see it. In the poet's vivid words: The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It...gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed." And yet "the minute particular," as Blake called it, is not swallowed up in the all-embracing whole....

...and so-called ' nature-mystics ' — known to many normal persons in moments of exaltation — when ' The world is charged with the grandeur of God It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.' * Cf. his great imitator St Augustine, ' There is no health in those who find fault with any part of...

...sensitive to God's beauty and love, to human need and sin, and the despoiling of nature by human greed. 'God's Grandeur' The world is charged with the grandeur...greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared,...

...sensitive to God's beauty and love, to human need and sin, and the despoiling of nature by human greed. 'God's Grandeur' The world is charged with the grandeur...gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Miy do men now not reek his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with...

...Quartets. The spangled language of the Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins calls us to worship: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil." J ' Christians should also be familiar with contemporary poets such as Luci Shaw, John Leax, Paul Mariani,...

...the earth in red, blue, and gold, he is in his imagination transported to a transfigured territory. "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. /It will flame out, like shining from shook foil" (Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur"). The Christian gardener stands in the midst of Paradise as...