What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wilderness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.


In: W.H. Gardner and N.H. MacKenzie (eds.), The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid, Stanza 4

Frederick Gowland Hopkins Quotes

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wilderness and wet; Long live the weeds and the...

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wilderness and wet; Long live the weeds and the...

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wilderness and wet; Long live the weeds and the...

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wilderness and wet; Long live the weeds and the...