The Candle Indoors by Gerard Manley Hopkins

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend December 4, 2016   The Candle Indoors   Gerard Manley Hopkins

Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by. I muse at how its being puts blissful back With yellowy moisture mild night's blear-all black, Or to-fro tender trambeams truckle at the eye. By that window what task what fingers ply, I plod wondering, a-wanting, just for lack Of answer the eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack There God to aggrándise, God to glorify.—   Come you indoors, come home; your fading fire Mend first and vital candle in close heart's vault: You there are master, do your own desire; What hinders? Are you beam-blind, yet to a fault In a neighbor deft-handed? Are you that liar And, cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "The Candle Indoors" was published in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Humphrey Milford, 1918).   Gerard Manley Hopkins was born at Stratford, Essex, England, on July 28, 1844. Although his poems were never published during his lifetime, his friend, the poet Robert Bridges, edited a volume of Hopkins's Poems that first appeared in 1918. He died on June 8, 1889.   Poetry by Hopkins   Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1953)  "Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember]" by Christina Rossetti "Lovers' Infiniteness" by John Donne "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038