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Read & copy the quotation
“Glory be to God for dappled things—”
- Source
- Pied Beauty
- Date
- 1918
Meaning of “Glory be to God for dappled things—”
Hopkins opens with praise for patterned difference in nature, celebrating irregular color, texture and variety within an explicitly Christian vision of creation.
Where does it come from?
“Pied Beauty,” written in 1877 and first published in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918), represented by Project Gutenberg #22403. The poem is a Christian curtal sonnet of praise; its theological attribution of natural variety remains devotional poetry.