 | Alfred Henry Miles - English poetry - 1906 - 738 pages
...left, O let them be left, wildness and wet ; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. VIII.— TO THE fine delight that fathers thought ; the strong...years she long Within her wears, bears, cares and moulds the same : The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim Now known, and hand at work now... | |
 | Katherine Marie Cornelia Brégy - Composers - 1912 - 232 pages
...realise the fact. He submitted, the very year of his death, his noble and highly masterful apologia : 'To The fine delight that fathers thought ; the strong...years she long Within her wears, bears, cares and moulds the same : The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim Not known, and hand at work now... | |
 | Hans-Werner Ludwig - Lyrik - 1979 - 278 pages
...Beispiele: For thee watch l, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere (Shakespeare, Sonnets, 61 ) Nine years she then, nay years, nine years she long Within her wears, bears, cares and combs the same: [combs = stores, matures as in honeycombs; zugleich Binnenreim] (Gerard Manley Hopkins, "To RB") 4.3.... | |
 | Benedetto Croce - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 260 pages
...and insight of a Shelley. His last verses, addressed to his friend, the poet Robert Bridges, declare: THE fine delight that fathers thought; the strong...came, Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song. cease to feel and to conceive poetically, and to increase and refine his experience of art, so that... | |
 | Gerard Manley Hopkins - Poetry - 1995 - 68 pages
...eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. 51 ToRB. The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong...years she long Within her wears, bears, cares and moulds the same: The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim Now known and hand at work now never... | |
 | J. Hillis Miller - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 308 pages
...Manley Hopkins, for example, describes the "mind . . . mother of immortal song" as a gestating weaver: "Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she long /Within her wears, bears, cares and combs the same."4 The other sexual figure for writing is brought to the surface, for example, not only in a crucial... | |
 | Philip A. Ballinger - Poetry - 2000 - 276 pages
...aesthetic' is a vision of poetry as 'sacrament'. Hopkins opened his last complete poem with the stanza: The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong...it came, Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song.30 So Hopkins has fathered thought through the inspiration of his vision of reality, expressed... | |
 | Julia F. Saville - History - 2000 - 264 pages
...aftereffect, and even the lengthy gestation of the "immortal song" is envisaged as painstaking domestic work ("Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she...Within her wears, bears, cares and combs the same"). Beginning the sestet with a succinct reiteration of his lack, Hopkins delays the volta until the last... | |
 | Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, Peter L. Shillingsburg - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 464 pages
...This conciliatory letter survives, but Bridges burnt the two "bitter" ones before it.) 5' To R, B. THE fine delight that fathers thought ; the strong...faster than it came, Leaves yet the mind a mother of immort.il song. Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she long Within her wears, bears, cares... | |
 | Richard J. Bernstein - Philosophy - 2004 - 404 pages
...more," then, while affirming personal identity as the locus for an inspiration that leads to poiesis (the "fine delight that fathers thought; the strong/ Spur, live and lancing . . ." as well as months or years of gestation),17 alludes not only to an articulate, organized language... | |
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THE fine delight that fathers thought; the strong Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, Breathes once and, quenched faster than it came, Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song. Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she long Within... 
