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My own heart

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

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My own heart let me have more pity on; let     Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,     Charitable; not live this tormented mind     With this tormented mind tormenting yet.     I cast for comfort I can no more get     By groping round my comfortless, than blind     Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find     Thirst's all-in-all in all a world of wet.     Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise     You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile     Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size     At God knows when to God knows what; whose smile     's not wrung, see you; unforeseen times rather - as skies     Betweenpie mountains - lights a lovely mile.

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About Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was an English Jesuit poet who invented "sprung rhythm," a new metrical system. His poems—including "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," and "God's Grandeur"—were published posthumously and are now celebrated for their ecstatic language and innovative prosody.

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