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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... "
Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians - Hopkins, Pater and Wilde - Page 402
by Michael Matthew Kaylor - 2006 - 457 pages
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Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, a Son, and the Gene that Binds Them

Clare Dunsford - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 230 pages
...months and even years before, nascent in the wayward nucleotides that danced in my family's blood. ("Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she...Within her wears, bears, cares and combs the same," Hopkins wrote of his mind, the fertilized "mother of immortal song.") JP was coming to being in my...
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The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Joseph J. Feeney - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 244 pages
...PW\5S. 140 PW\tf. MI PW 194 142 FL 85. 143 L5192. 144 L5296. 145 PW\3\. smeared, with toil,"146 or "nine years she long / Within her wears, bears, cares and combs the same."147 He is frisky with run-over rhymes and near-rhymes like "leeward'V'drew her/ D- "/"endured"148...
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Catholic World, Volume 88

1909 - 1206 pages
...He submitted, the very year of his death, his noble and highly masterful apologia: To -r— , 1889. The fine delight that fathers thought ; the strong...like the blowpipe flame, Breathes once, and quenched faster.it came, Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song. Nine months she then, nay years, nine...
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The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Elsie Elizabeth Phare - 1967 - 170 pages
...Inspiration is only the beginning : there is a great deal still to be done after the moment of conception. " Nine months she then, nay years, nine 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...
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