This poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins praises God for creating natural phenomena that are varied, diverse, and complex in their patterns and colors. The poet specifically references dappled animal skins, speckled fish, autumn leaves, birds' wings, and countryside landscapes as examples of things in nature with intricate color variations and textures that demonstrate God's infinite creative abilities that are beyond human comprehension.
This poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins praises God for creating natural phenomena that are varied, diverse, and complex in their patterns and colors. The poet specifically references dappled animal skins, speckled fish, autumn leaves, birds' wings, and countryside landscapes as examples of things in nature with intricate color variations and textures that demonstrate God's infinite creative abilities that are beyond human comprehension.
This poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins praises God for creating natural phenomena that are varied, diverse, and complex in their patterns and colors. The poet specifically references dappled animal skins, speckled fish, autumn leaves, birds' wings, and countryside landscapes as examples of things in nature with intricate color variations and textures that demonstrate God's infinite creative abilities that are beyond human comprehension.
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and piecedfold, fallow, and plough; And ll trdes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.