by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
A Daily Offering
Language: English
The dappled dieaway cheek and the wimpled lip, The goldwisp, the airy grey eye, all in fellowship This, all this beauty blooming, This, all this freshness fuming, Give God while worth consuming. Both thought and thew now bolder And told by Nature: Tower; Head, heart, hand, heel, and shoulder That beat and breathe in power This pride of prime's enjoyment Take as for tool, not toy meant And hold at Christ's employment. The vault and scope and schooling And mastery in the mind, In silk-ash kept from cooling And ripest under rind What life half lifts the latch of What hell stalks toward the snatch of Your offering, with dispatch of.
Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "A Daily Offering", op. 96 no. 1 (1993), from Four Sacred Songs, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Victoria Brago
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 111