 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 447edited by - 1919Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1910 - 332 pages
...feast begun, And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse, not laboured-at, nor spun. GOD'S GRANDEUR 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... | |
 | Katherine Marie Cornelia Brégy - Composers - 1912 - 232 pages
...ultimate message, clarion-clear, in this very direct and characteristic sonnet upon " God's Grandeur " : 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... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1914 - 288 pages
...bibliography indeed for a genuinely inspired poet, the most scrupulous word-artist of the nineteenth century ! The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil. These opening lines of a sonnet illustrate clearly Gerard Hopkins' spirit and method. Like that other... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - English poetry - 1917 - 330 pages
...feast begun, And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse, not laboured-at, nor spun. GOD'S GRANDEUR 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... | |
 | Evelyn Underhill - Mysticism - 1920 - 260 pages
...those who find fault with any part of Thy creation " (Cow/. vii. 14). On the contrary, his doctrine gives a religious sanction and a philosophic explanation...and apprehensions of artists, poets, and so-called " naturemystics"—known to many normal persons in moments of exaltation—when " The world is so charged... | |
 | Joyce Kilmer - Authors, American - 1921 - 328 pages
...indeed for a genuinely inspired poet, the most scrupulous wordartist of the nineteenth century 1 [180] The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil. These opening lines of a sonnet illustrate clearly Gerard Hopkins' spirit and method. Like that other... | |
 | Richard Hart - Religion - 2003 - 130 pages
...quote them. If our homily pertains to God's creation we might quote some of Gerard Manly Hopkins' poem: 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? '' If... | |
 | Robert Blaisdell - Poetry - 2003 - 116 pages
...which on that day My instinct would not throw away! Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) God's Grandeur 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Michael Boyle - Poetry - 2003 - 272 pages
...abuse of God's creation, so he invented the clashing cymbals of his own "sprung rhythm." God's Grandeur 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... | |
 | Thomas Anthony Shannon, James J. Walter - Biotechnology - 2003 - 204 pages
...reflection on this possibility is the poem "God's Grandeur" by the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. 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... | |
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