Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• Wonder
• Gold
• Shining
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• Bleak

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• No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Fall
  • Wonder
  • Gold