Gerard
Manley Hopkins Poems In Musical Adaptations - 22 of
Hopkins' poems in contemporary musical adaptations by singer-songwriter
Sean O'Leary available on the 2CD album The Alchemist. Songs
include God's Grandeur, Pied Beauty, Spring, Felix Randal
and the first complete musical setting of The Wreck Of The
Deutschland. A
demo page offers generous clips of 5 of the songs on
the album. Beautifully done
THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur
of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with
toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s
smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.