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This quote is just one of 9 total Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes in our collection. Gerard Manley Hopkins is known for saying 'I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow.' as well as some of the following quotes.
I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow.
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end?
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 lightning to hear him sing.
This quote is just one of 9 total Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes in our collection. Gerard Manley Hopkins is known for saying 'I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow.' as well as some of the following quotes.