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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.

Text 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.
Line count: 19
Word count: 111

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