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This lenten poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins highlights the struggle with darkness and the loss of time.
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Poetry
Lectionary Poetry – 2nd Sunday in Lent (Year A)
February 27, 2023 2:35 pmViews: 1689
Each week we carefully curate a collection of poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).
Additional Lenten Poem…
I wake and feel the fell
of dark, not day
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(available as a FREE ebook
from Project Gutenberg)
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hours we have spent
This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!
And more must, in yet longer light’s delay.
With witness I speak this. But where I say
Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament
Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent
To dearest him that lives alas! away.
I am gall, I am heartburn. God’s most deep decree
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.
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Year A Second Sunday in Lent
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Monday, February 27, 2023