Continuing with my previous post, here’s three more poems I left behind on a recent trip to the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. Louise Gluck’s riveting “Gretel in Darkness” is a favorite poem of mine and I couldn’t resist putting it in these enchanted woods. Gluck imagines Gretel years after she has pushed [...]
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Porkies 2
Posted in Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gretel in Darkness, Louise Gluck, Porkies 2, Robert Hayden, Spring and Fall to a Young Child, Those Winter Sundays, Uncategorized, tagged michigan, nature, poetry on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Good grief
Posted in Poems, Poets, Spring and Fall to a Young Child, tagged culture, fall, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Good Grief, Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers, poetry, Spring and Fall to a Young Child on October 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Spring and Fall to a young child by Gerald Manley Hopkins MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Áh! ás the heart grows older 5 It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds [...]
