Inversnaid
Poem By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Inversnaid is a poem written by Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1881, inspired by the wild landscape of the Scottish Highlands near Loch Lomond.The poem takes its name from the village of Inversnaid, situated where the Arklet Water flows into Loch Lomond. Hopkins uses vivid language and inventive compounds, such as "beadbonny ash", to capture the untamed beauty of the stream, the surrounding heath, and the resilience of nature. His verse celebrates the "wet and wildness" of the environment, urging that such places be preserved for their spiritual and ecological value.
Hopkins' poems were not published during his lifetime; Inversnaid was first printed posthumously in 1918, in the collection "Poems Of Gerard Manley Hopkins".
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The Beadbonny AshInversnaid By Gerard Manley Hopkins
This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.
Degged with dew, dappled with dew
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
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Loch Lomond Falls Of Inversnaid, Unknown Author, c. 1903
Published in https://genius.com/Gerard-manley-hopkins-inversnaid-annotated.
Published in https://allpoetry.com/Inversnaid.
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