To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot My Life
Read 'To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot My Life' by 'Gerard Manley Hopkins' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot My Life by Gerard Manley Hopkins
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life
Among strangers. Father and mother dear,
Brothers and sisters are in Christ not near
And he my peace my parting, sword and strife.
England, whose honour O all my heart woos, wife
To my creating thought, would neither hear
Me, were I pleading, plead nor do I: I wear-
y of idle a being but by where wars are rife.
I am in Ireland now; now I am at a thírd
Remove. Not but in all removes I can
Kind love both give and get. Only what word
Wisest my heart breeds dark heaven's baffling ban
Bars or hell's spell thwarts. This to hoard unheard,
Heard unheeded, leaves me a lonely began.
Turn off ads, get more exposure for your poetry, and get more features with a
Premium Membership.
