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Christian : Catholic
19th Century

About Gerard Manley Hopkins

Timeline (1844 - 1889)

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Original Language
English

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

Themes
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Recommended Books

All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, by Robert Ellsberg
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
     Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
     Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I cameŠ
     ŠFor Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
     To the Father through the features of men's faces.

 

 

-- from All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, by Robert Ellsberg

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