Spring

Spring

By Gerard Manley Hopkins



Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –         

   When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;         

   Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush         

Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring         

The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;

   The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush         

   The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush         

With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.         

What is all this juice and all this joy?         

   A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning

In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy,         

   Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,         

Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,         

   Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning. 

MLA Citation for Video

MLA Citation for Poem

Roberts, Edgar V., and Darlene Stock. Stotler. "Spring." Literature an Introduction to Reading and Writing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2008. 544. Print.

Spring. Dir. Sarah Vandarsdale. Youtube: Spring. 24 Apr. 2010. 4 May 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBYrXpRidc4.