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by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in...
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.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "Hurrahing in harvest", appears in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, first published 1918 [author's text checked 1 time 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 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 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Bernard P. Langley , "Hurrahing in harvest", 1970-2 [ tenor and orchestra or piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Donna N. Robertson (b. 1935), "Hurrahing in harvest", 1969 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Odes to God in Nature on Poems by Gerard M. Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Grace Mary Williams (1906 - 1977), "Hurrahing in harvest", 1958 [ alto and string sextet ], from Six Songs (Poems?) by Gerard Manley Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-14
Line count: 14
Word count: 124

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