tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8067112966724673321.post3013759313243363438..comments2023-08-27T05:50:10.321-07:00Comments on My Laureate's Lasso: End of OctoberKathryn Stripling Byerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867152753841610044noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8067112966724673321.post-30860688506577625212008-10-31T07:27:00.000-07:002008-10-31T07:27:00.000-07:00Oct.31, 2008Hello Kay and Isabel,I like reading th...Oct.31, 2008<BR/><BR/>Hello Kay and Isabel,<BR/><BR/>I like reading this poem over and over again <BR/>as the wind sighs and the leaves on my trees <BR/>whisper. Who knows what darkness will bring.<BR/><BR/>Nancy SimpsonNancy Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8067112966724673321.post-43602268195010825552008-10-30T13:45:00.000-07:002008-10-30T13:45:00.000-07:00Here's a poem sent in by North Carolina Arts Counc...Here's a poem sent in by North Carolina Arts Council Lit. Director, Debbie McGill, in response to my invitation to readers to submit favorite autumn poems. This poem happens to be one of my favorites, too.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thanks for this invitation, Kay. One of my favorites is this, by the Irish poet Gerard Manley Hopkins:<BR/><BR/>Spring and Fall <BR/><BR/>to a young child <BR/><BR/><BR/>MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving <BR/>Over Goldengrove unleaving? <BR/>Leáves, líke the things of man, you <BR/>With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? <BR/>Áh! ás the heart grows older <BR/>It will come to such sights colder <BR/>By and by, nor spare a sigh <BR/>Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; <BR/>And yet you wíll weep and know why. <BR/>Now no matter, child, the name: <BR/>Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. <BR/>Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed <BR/>What heart heard of, ghost guessed: <BR/>It ís the blight man was born for, <BR/>It is Margaret you mourn for. <BR/><BR/>I love the way Hopkins packs grief and hope into the line, "It is the blight man was born for." And the poem's music ("worlds of wanwood leafmeal") gives me goosebumps.Kathryn Stripling Byerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17867152753841610044noreply@blogger.com