 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 507edited by - 1919Full view - About this book
 | 1910 - 332 pages
...feast begun, And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse, not laboured-at, nor spun. GOD'S GRANDEUR 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... | |
 | Katherine Marie Cornelia Brégy - 1912 - 232 pages
...ultimate message, clarion-clear, in this very direct and characteristic sonnet upon " God's Grandeur " : 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... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1914 - 288 pages
...bibliography indeed for a genuinely inspired poet, the most scrupulous word-artist of the nineteenth century ! The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil. These opening lines of a sonnet illustrate clearly Gerard Hopkins' spirit and method. Like that other... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - 1917 - 330 pages
...feast begun, And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse, not laboured-at, nor spun. GOD'S GRANDEUR 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... | |
 | Evelyn Underhill - 1920 - 260 pages
...those who find fault with any part of Thy creation " (Cow/. vii. 14). On the contrary, his doctrine gives a religious sanction and a philosophic explanation...and apprehensions of artists, poets, and so-called " naturemystics"—known to many normal persons in moments of exaltation—when " The world is so charged... | |
 | Joyce Kilmer - 1921 - 328 pages
...indeed for a genuinely inspired poet, the most scrupulous wordartist of the nineteenth century 1 [180] The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil. These opening lines of a sonnet illustrate clearly Gerard Hopkins' spirit and method. Like that other... | |
 | Thomas H. Groome - 2009 - 338 pages
...sacramental outlook on all of life in the world. In the words of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), "The world is charged with the grandeur of God./ It will flame out, like shining from shook foil."' That's a Catholic imagination. GOD'S SPIRIT AT WORK IN THE WORLD Christian faith sees Jesus as the... | |
 | Robert Blaisdell - 2003 - 116 pages
...which on that day My instinct would not throw away! Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) God's Grandeur 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... | |
 | J. J. Overell - 2003 - 132 pages
...saw how happy you were I couldn't be angry. Even though you were tired you looked so very happy. '' 'The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil;' ' you said. but I found the poem later and now I know it off by heart. At the time, though, it was... | |
 | Thomas Anthony Shannon, James J. Walter - 2003 - 204 pages
...reflection on this possibility is the poem "God's Grandeur" by the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. 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... | |
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