The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Escorial --

A vision of the mermaids --

Winter with the gulf stream --

Spring and death --

A soliloquy of one of the spies left in the wilderness --

Barnfloor and Winepress --

New readings --

He hath abolished the old drouth --

Heaven-haven --

For a picture of St. Dorothea --

Easter Communion --

To Oxford --

Where are thou friend, whom I shall never see --

The beginning of the end --

The alchemist in the city --

Myself unholy, from myself unholy --

See how Spring opens with disabling cold --

My prayers must meet a brazen heaven --

Let me be to Thee as the circling bird --

The half-way house --

The nightingale --

The habit of perfection --

Nondum --

Easter --

Lines for a picture of St. Dorothea --

Ad Mariam --

Rosa Mystica --

Dedication of the first edition (Poems 1876-89) --

Sonnet to G.M.H. / Robert Bridges -- Author's preface (with explanatory notes and examples by W. H. G. --

The wreck of Deutschland --

The silver jubilee --

Penmaen pool --

God's grandeur --

The starlight night --

Spring --

In the valley of the Elwy --

The sea and the skylark --

The windhover --

Pied beauty --

Hurrahing in harvest --

The caged skylark --

The lantern out of doors --

The loss of the Eurydice --

The May magnificat --

Binsey poplars --

Duns Scotus's Oxford --

Henry Purcell --

The candle indoors --

The hansome heart --

The Bugler's first communion --

Morning, midday, and evening sacrifice --

Andromeda --

Peace --

At the wedding march --

Felix Randal --

Brothers --

Spring and fall --

Inversnaid --

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame --

Ribblesdale --

The leaden echo and the golden echo --

The blessed Virgin compared to the air we breathe --

Spelt from Sibyl's leaves --

To what serves mortal beauty --

The soldier --

Carrion comfort --

No worst, there is none --

To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life --

I wake and feel the fell of dark not day --

Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray --

My own heart let me more have pity on --

Tom's Garland --

Harry Ploughman --

That nature is a Heraclitean fire... --

In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez --

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend --

The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning --

To R. B. --

Il mystico --

A windy day in summer --

A fragment of anything you like --

Fragments of Pilate --

A voice from the world --

She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes --

The lover's stars --

During the eastering of untainted morns --

Hill, heaven and every field, are still --

The peacock's eye --

Love preparing to fly --

I must hunt down the prize --

Why should their foolish bands, their hopeless hearses --

Why if it be so, for the dismal morn --

It was a hard thing to undo this knot --

Glimmer'd along the square-cut steep --

Late I fell in the ecstacy --

Miss Story's character! too much you ask --

Did Helen steal my love from me --

Of virtues I most warmly bless --

Modern poets --

On a poetess --

You ask why can't Clarissa hold her tongue --

On one who borrowed his sermons --

By one of the old school who was bid to follow --

Boughs being pruned, birds preened --

By Mrs. Hopley --

Sundry fragments and images --

Io --

The rainbow --

Yes for a time they held as well --

Fragments of Floris in Italy --

I am like a slip of comet --

No, they are come; their horn is lifted up --

Now I am minded to take pipe in hand --

The cold whip-adder unespied --

Fragments of Richard --

All as the moth call'd Underwing alighted --

The Queen's crowning --

Tomorrow meet you? O not tomorrow --

Fragment of Stephen and Barberie --

I hear a noise of waters drawn away --

When eyes that cast about in heights of heaven --

The summer Malison --

O death, death, he is come --

Bellisle! that is a fabling name, but we --

Confirmed beauty will not bear a stress --

But what indeed is ask'd of me --

To Oxford --

Continuation of R. Garnett's Nix --

A noise of falls I am possessed by --

O what a silence is this wilderness --

Mothers are doubtless happier for their babes --

Daphne --

Fragments of Castara Victrix --

Shakspere --

Trees by their yield --

A complaint --

Moonless darkness stands between --

The earth and heaven, so little known --

As it fell upon a day --

In the staring darkness --

Summa --

Not kind! to freeze me with forecast --

The elopement --

St. Thecla --

Moonrise --

The woodlark --

On St. Winefred --

To him who ever thougth with love of me --

What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been --

Cheery beggar --

Denis, who motionable, alert, most vaulting wit --

The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down --

Margaret Clitheroe --

Repeat that, repeat --

The child is father to the man --

On a piece of music --

Ashboughs --

The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less --

Hope holds to Christ the mind's own mirror out --

St. Winefred's well --

To his watch --

Strike, churl; hurl cheerless wind --

Thee, God, I come from, to thee go --

What shall I do for the land that bred me --

On the portrait of two beautiful young people --

The sea took pity: it interposed with doom --

Epithalamion --

Prometheus desmotes / translated from Aeschylus --

Love me as I love thee. O double sweet / translated from the Greek --

Inundiatio Oxoniana / translated from the Greek --

Tristu tu, memini, virgo / translated from Elegiacs --

After the Convent Threshold / translated from Elegiacs --

Persicos odi, puer, apparatus / translated from Horace --

Odi profanum volgus et arceo / translated from Horace --

Jesu Dulcis Memoria / translated from the Latin --

S. Thomae Aquinatis Rhythmus / translated from St. Thomas Aquainus --

Oratio Patris Condren --

O Deus, ego amo te / translated from the Latin --

O Deus, ego amo te / translated from the Welsh --

Cywydd / translated from the Welsh --

Ad episcopum salopiensem / translated from the Latin --

Ad reverendum patrem fratrem / translated from Thomam Burke --

In S. Winefridam / translated --

Haec te jubent salvere, quod possunt, loca / translated --

Miror surgentem per puram Oriona noctem / translated --

Ad matrem virginem / translated --

May lines --

In Theclam Virginem / translated --

Epigram on Milton / translated from the Latin of Dryden --

Come unto these yellow sands / translated from Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek --

Full fathom five thy father lies / translated from Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek --

While you here do snoring lie / translated from Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek --

Tell me where is Fancy bred / translated from Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek --

Orpheus with his lute made trees / translated from Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek --

When icicles hang by the wall / translated from Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek -- Incomplete Latin version of 'When icicles hang by the wall' --