Spring and 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 and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie.
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no [...]
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Gerald Manley Hopkins
Posted in Gerald Manley Hopkins, tagged death, Hopkins, Life, Poetry, poetry analysis, seasons, spring and fall to a young child, thoughts on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
