Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918. | | 8. The Starlight Night | | | LOOK at the stars! look, look up at the skies! | | O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! | | The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! | | Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves’-eyes! | | The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! | 5 | Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! | | Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!— | | Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize. | | Buy then! bid then!—What?—Prayer, patience, aims, vows. | | Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs! | 10 | Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows! | | These are indeed the barn; withindoors house | | The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse | | Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows. | | | See Notes. | | | |