by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Glory be to God for dappled things
Language: English
Our translations: FIN
Glory be to God for dappled things --
For skies of couple-colour as a [brinded]1 cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced -- fold, fallow, and [plough]2.
[And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.]3
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)1 sometimes modernized to "brindled"
2 Mitchell: "trim"
2 omitted by Mitchell
Text Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "Pied Beauty", written 1877, 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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Pied Beauty", 1999 [ soprano and piano ], from Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Newel Kay Brown (b. 1932), "Pied Beauty" [ baritone and tenor trombone ], from Hopkins Set [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur M. Campbell , "Pied Beauty" [ high voice and piano ], from God's Grandeur [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Chandler (b. 1911), "Glory be to God for dappled things", published 1960 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Dickinson (b. 1934), "Pied Beauty", 1960-4 [ soprano, baritone, SATB chorus, and organ ], from Four Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems [sung text not yet checked]
- by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986), "Pied Beauty", published 1932 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacob Druckman (b. 1928), "Antiphonies III" [ 2 SATB choruses a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vivian Fine (1913 - 2000), "Pied Beauty", 1984 [ voice and string quartet ], from Ode to Henry Purcell, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Graham George (b. 1912), "Glory be to God for dappled things", 1973 [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Trevor Hold (1939 - 2004), "Pied Beauty", 1965-7 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Four Sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "Pied Beauty", op. 96 no. 2 (1993), from Four Sacred Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Diane Morgan , "Pied Beauty" [ baritone and piano ], from The Seeker [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923 - 2006), "Pied Beauty", published 1970 [ tenor-baritone or baritone and viola ], from Eight Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Plumstead (1905 - 1980), "Pied Beauty", published 1963 [ SSA chorus a cappella ], London: Elkin [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "Pied Beauty", op. 122 no. 1 (1964), published 1965 [ SATB chorus and piano or strings and harp ], from Inscape, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louise Juliette Talma (1906 - 1996), "Glory to God for dappled things", 1946 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964), "Pied Beauty", 2001, first performed 2001 [ soprano, children's chorus and chamber orchestra ], from Daylight Divine, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert Eugene Ward (1917 - 2013), "Pied Beauty", published 1966 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Sacred Songs for Pantheists, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lawrence L. Widdoes (b. 1932), "Pied Beauty", copyright © 1968 [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Grace Mary Williams (1906 - 1977), "Pied Beauty", 1958 [ alto and string sextet ], from Six Songs (Poems?) by Gerard Manley Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]
- by Russell Woollen (1923 - 1994), "Pied Beauty", 1959, copyright © 1959, first performed 1959 [ high voice and piano ], from Suite for High Voice, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ramon Zupko (b. 1932), "Pied Beauty" [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Monimuotoista kauneutta", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 74