Poetic Openings : Gerard Manley Hopkins to Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection : First Line : Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-
Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Alchemist In The City : First Line : My window shews the travelling clouds,
Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe : First Line : Wild air, world-mothering air,
Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Bugler's First Communion : First Line : A buglar boy from barrack (it is over the hill
Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Caged Skylark : First Line : As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage

Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Candle Indoors : First Line : Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by.
Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Child Is Father To The Man : First Line : ‘The child is father to the man.’
Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Furl Of Fresh-leaved Dogrose Down : First Line : The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Habit Of Perfection : First Line : Elected Silence, sing to me
Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem : The Half-way House : First Line : Love I was shewn upon the mountain-side