“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins - Classic Poetry with Jonathan Roumie

Engage in classic Catholic poetry with the warm voice of Jonathan Roumie, the actor who plays Jesus in “The Chosen” television series.

This week, Roumie reads “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

to a young child

Márgarét, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás 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 wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

For more of Hopkins' poetry, check out "As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Selected and Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins" from Editor Holly Ordway at: https://wordonfire.org/kingfishers.

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