by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
All the world is full of inscape
Language: English
All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose: looking out of my window I caught it in the random clods and broken heaps of snow made by the cast of a broom.
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- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), no title, appears in The Journals [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 Anthony Gilbert (b. 1934), "All the world is full of inscape", op. 26 no. 2, published 1975, rev. 1981 [soprano, reciter, clarinet, saxophone, and percussion], from Inscapes, no. 2, London, Schott [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2013-12-01
Line count: 7
Word count: 45