Pied Beauty

by Gerard Manley Hopkins:

Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

I was doing a search for this poem on my blog and saw that I've posted it many times in the past three years since starting to blog. Well, it is my all-time favorite poem by one of my favorite poets.

Skies of couple-colour:














A brinded cow:























Rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim:















Fresh-firecoal chestnut-fall:















Finches’ wings:























Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough: