{"id":1871,"date":"2012-04-10T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T10:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janice-campbell.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2018-05-07T15:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:13:23","slug":"poems-for-spring-by-gerard-manley-hopkins-and-amy-lowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/poems-for-spring-by-gerard-manley-hopkins-and-amy-lowell\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems for Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Amy Lowell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s such a beautiful spring! I thought you might enjoy seeing the different ways two of my favorite poets wrote about the season. The first poem is Spring<\/strong><\/em> by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet with a unique, rhythmic style. His poetry is packed with metaphor and meaning, and springs beautifully when read aloud.<\/p>\n

The second poem, Amy Lowell’s Lilacs<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0beautifully personifies the lilac, leaving the reader with a vivid understanding of the evocative power of a lowly flower.<\/p>\n

Poetry makes excellent copywork as well as material for memorization and recitation. Many parents have reported great success with both when they allow their students to select the poems. Try suggesting a theme such as spring or an animal (my boys always liked William Blake’s The Tyger)<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, and letting them browse the poetry anthology or the Excellence-in-Literature.com<\/a> website to find something they enjoy.<\/p>\n

Spring<\/a><\/h3>\n

by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring \u2013
\nWhen weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
\nThrush\u2019s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
\nThrough the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
\nThe ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
\nThe glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
\nThe descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
\nWith richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.<\/p>\n

What is all this juice and all this joy?
\nA strain of the earth\u2019s sweet being in the beginning
\nIn Eden garden. \u2013 Have, get, before it cloy,
\nBefore it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
\nInnocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
\nMost, O maid\u2019s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.<\/p>\n

\n

Lilacs (1922)<\/h3>\n

by Amy Lowell, 1874-1925<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Lilacs,
\nFalse blue,
\nWhite,
\nPurple,
\nColor of lilac,
\nYour great puffs of flowers
\nAre everywhere in this my New England.
\nAmong your heart-shaped leaves
\nOrange orioles hop like music-box birds and sing
\nTheir little weak soft songs;
\nIn the crooks of your branches
\nThe bright eyes of song sparrows sitting on spotted eggs
\nPeer restlessly through the light and shadow
\nOf all Springs.
\nLilacs in dooryards
\nHolding quiet conversations with an early moon;
\nLilacs watching a deserted house
\nSettling sideways into the grass of an old road;
\nLilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom
\nAbove a cellar dug into a hill.
\nYou are everywhere.
\nYou were everywhere.
\nYou tapped the window when the preacher preached his sermon,
\nAnd ran along the road beside the boy going to school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
\nYou persuaded the housewife that her dish-pan was of silver
\nAnd her husband an image of pure gold.
\nYou flaunted the fragrance of your blossoms
\nThrough the wide doors of Custom Houses\u2014
\nYou, and sandal-wood, and tea,
\nCharging the noses of quill-driving clerks
\nWhen a ship was in from China.
\nYou called to them: “Goose-quill men, goose-quill men,
\nMay is a month for flitting,”
\nUntil they writhed on their high stools
\nAnd wrote poetry on their letter-sheets behind the propped-up ledgers.
\nParadoxical New England clerks,
\nWriting inventories in ledgers, reading the “Song of Solomon<\/a>” at night,
\nSo many verses before bedtime,
\nBecause it was the Bible.
\nThe dead fed you
\nAmid the slant stones of graveyards.
\nPale ghosts who planted you
\nCame in the night time
\nAnd let their thin hair blow through your clustered stems.
\nYou are of the green sea,
\nAnd of the stone hills which reach a long distance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

You are of elm-shaded streets with little shops where they sell kites and marbles,
\nYou are of great parks where every one walks and nobody is at home.
\nYou cover the blind sides of greenhouses
\nAnd lean over the top to say a hurry-word through the glass
\nTo your friends, the grapes, inside.<\/p>\n

Lilacs,
\nFalse blue,
\nWhite,
\nPurple,
\nColor of lilac,
\nYou have forgotten your Eastern origin,
\nThe veiled women with eyes like panthers,
\nThe swollen, aggressive turbans of jeweled Pashas.
\nNow you are a very decent flower,
\nA reticent flower,
\nA curiously clear-cut, candid flower,
\nStanding beside clean doorways,
\nFriendly to a house-cat and a pair of spectacles,
\nMaking poetry out of a bit of moonlight
\nAnd a hundred or two sharp blossoms.<\/p>\n

Maine knows you,
\nHas for years and years;
\nNew Hampshire knows you,
\nAnd Massachusetts
\nAnd Vermont.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Cape Cod starts you along the beaches to Rhode Island;
\nConnecticut takes you from a river to the sea.
\nYou are brighter than apples,
\nSweeter than tulips,
\nYou are the great flood of our souls
\nBursting above the leaf-shapes of our hearts,
\nYou are the smell of all Summers,
\nThe love of wives and children,
\nThe recollection of the gardens of little children,
\nYou are State Houses and Charters
\nAnd the familiar treading of the foot to and fro on a road it knows.
\nMay is lilac here in New England,
\nMay is a thrush singing “Sun up!” on a tip-top ash-tree,
\nMay is white clouds behind pine-trees
\nPuffed out and marching upon a blue sky.
\nMay is a green as no other,
\nMay is much sun through small leaves,
\nMay is soft earth,
\nAnd apple-blossoms,
\nAnd windows open to a South wind.
\nMay is a full light wind of lilac
\nFrom Canada to Narragansett Bay.<\/p>\n

Lilacs,
\nFalse blue,
\nWhite,
\nPurple,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Color of lilac,
\nHeart-leaves of lilac all over New England,
\nRoots of lilac under all the soil of New England,
\nLilac in me because I am New England,
\nBecause my roots are in it,
\nBecause my leaves are of it,
\nBecause my flowers are for it,
\nBecause it is my country
\nAnd I speak to it of itself
\nAnd sing of it with my own voice
\nSince certainly it is mine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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