by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
The world is charged with the grandeur...
Language: English
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -- Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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Text Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "God's Grandeur", appears in Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse, first published 1895 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "God's Grandeur", 1999 [ soprano and piano ], from Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "God's Grandeur" [ double mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "The world is charged with the grandeur of God", op. 116 no. 1, F. 36 no. 1, published 1970 [ SATB chorus, 2 flutes, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones ], from The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Newel Kay Brown (b. 1932), "God's Grandeur" [ baritone, trombone ], from Hopkins Set [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur M. Campbell , "God's Grandeur" [ high voice, piano ], from God's Grandeur [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Dickinson (b. 1934), "God's Grandeur", 1960-4 [ soprano, baritone, SATB chorus, organ ], from Four Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Douglas (b. 1932), "God's Grandeur", 1966 [ medium voice and violoncello ], from Light Shining Out of Darkness [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kenneth Leighton (1929 - 1988), "God's Grandeur", published 1959 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], motet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ellen Mandel , "God's Grandeur" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Manno (b. 1944), "God's Grandeur" [ satb chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by David W. Maves (b. 1937), "God's Grandeur", 1968 [ satb chorus and orchestra or piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernesto P. Pellegrini (b. 1932), "God's Grandeur", 1967 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Malcolm Perry , "God's Grandeur", published 1964 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jason Rico (b. 1978), "God's Grandeur" [ voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Donna N. Robertson (b. 1935), "God's Grandeur", 1969 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Odes to God in Nature on Poems by Gerard M. Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "God's Grandeur", op. 122 no. 2 (1964), published 1965 [ SATB chorus, strings, and harpsichord ; or SATB chorus and piano ], from Inscape, no. 2, suite [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875 - 1958), "God's Grandeur", published 1948 [ satb chorus, strings, drums, organ ], anthem [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Unsworth (b. 1935), "Never spent" [ satb chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Eugene Ward (1917 - 2013), "God's Grandeur", published 1966 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Sacred Songs for Pantheists, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul William Whear (b. 1925), "God's Grandeur", published 1975 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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Line count: 14
Word count: 125