Inspiring Poems: Binsey Poplars

Another wonderful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, born July 28th 1844. One of the greatest of poems about trees being cut down begins like this: "All felled, felled, are all felled;     Of a fresh and following folded rank                 Not spared, not one                 That dandled a sandalled          Shadow that swam or sank On meadow & river & …

A Year of Inspirers (13) – “Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”, and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hopkins was so sensitive to the beauty of nature, he prized the “wildness” and “wilderness” of life on our earth: “What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” (From ‘Inversnaid' https://www.bartleby.com/122/33.html) On …