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(ASH-BOUGHS) by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOT OF ALL MY EYES SEE, WANDERING ON THE WORLD
Last Line: HEAVEN WHOM SHE CHILDS US BY.

NOT of all my eyes see, wandering on the world,
Is anything a milk to the mind so, so sighs deep
Poetry to it, as a tree whose boughs break in the sky.
Say it is ashboughs: whether on a December day and furled
Fast or they in clammyish lashtender combs creep
Apart wide and new-nestle at heaven most high.
They touch heaven, tabour on it; how their talons sweep
The smouldering enormous winter welkin! May
Mells blue and snowwhite through them, a fringe and fray
Of greenery: it is old earth's groping towards the steep
Heaven whom she childs us by.





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