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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Age: 45 †
Born: 1844
Born: June 28
Died: 1889
Died: July 8
Poet
Writer
London
England
Hopkins
Blue
Gall
Gold
Plough
Embers
Wonder
Bleak
Fall
Shine
Makes
Sheer
Vermilion
Shining
Gash
Dear
Plod

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