“Hurrahing in the Harvest” by Gerard Manley Hopkins- read

from Classics by Steve Braff

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lyrics

“Hurrahing in the Harvest” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

credits

from Classics, track released December 12, 2016
Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/gerard-manley-hopkins
Photo by Steve Braff at www.stevebraff.smugmug.com
Reading by Steve Braff at stevebraff.blogspot.com