The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #172980   Message #4194729
Posted By: Lighter
02-Jan-24 - 03:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: language positives
Subject: RE: BS: language positves
This thread looks like it'll die for lack of input. So I'll add something else.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" (1880):

to a young child

Márgarét, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

(Among the most beautiful verses in the English language.)