Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Published: 1918, in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Length: 12 lines, 73 words, 1 word in 10 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 7–8. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: sun
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

GLORY be to God for dappled things—For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim:Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, andplough;And àll tràdes, their gear and tackle and trim.

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918), lines 1043–1055 of Project Gutenberg ebook #22403. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

What to do with it

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Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 12 lines · about 5–10 min
Task for students (you can change the sentence before you print; nothing is saved)See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
weatherline.popplepoetry.com/sources#ho-pied

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