Moonrise : : Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 –1889 ) : : : ; I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle,Or paring of paradisaïcal fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless,SteppedContinue reading “Moonrise : Gerard Manley Hopkins : : Moon Poems : :”
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A Medieval Morning Prayer ; Anonymous : : Morning Poems : :
A Medieval Morning Prayer : : Anonymous : : Jesu Lord, blyssed thou be,For all this nyght thou hast me kepeFrom the fend and his poste,Whether I wake or that I slepe. In grete deses and dedly synne,Many one this nyght fallyn has,That I my selve schuld have fallyn in,Hadyst thou not kepyd me withContinue reading “A Medieval Morning Prayer ; Anonymous : : Morning Poems : :”