Quotes by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the >>

Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed >>

Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long >>

Quotations about Spring

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! >>

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. >>

Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long >>

Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley