by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Hurrahing in the harvest Matches original text
Language: English
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour; And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a Rapturous love's greeting of realer, of rounder replies? And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder Majestic -- as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet! -- These things, these things were here and but the beholder Wanting; which two when they once meet, The heart rears wings bold and bolder And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.
Composition:
- Set to music by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "Hurrahing in the harvest", op. 58 no. 5 (1962), published 1963 [ high voice and piano ], from Autumn's Legacy, no. 5
Text Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "Hurrahing in harvest", appears in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, first published 1918
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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-14
Line count: 14
Word count: 124