by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in...
Language: English
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour; And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a Rapturous love's greeting of realer, of rounder replies? And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder Majestic -- as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet! -- These things, these things were here and but the beholder Wanting; which two when they once meet, The heart rears wings bold and bolder And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.
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Text Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "Hurrahing in harvest", appears in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, first published 1918 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "Hurrahing in the harvest", op. 58 no. 5 (1962), published 1963 [ high voice and piano ], from Autumn's Legacy, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bernard P. Langley , "Hurrahing in harvest", 1970-2 [ tenor and orchestra or piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Donna N. Robertson (b. 1935), "Hurrahing in harvest", 1969 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Odes to God in Nature on Poems by Gerard M. Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]
- by Grace Mary Williams (1906 - 1977), "Hurrahing in harvest", 1958 [ alto and string sextet ], from Six Songs (Poems?) by Gerard Manley Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-06-14
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Word count: 124