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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nationality: 
british
Gender: 
Male
Birth Date: 
1844
Birth Place: 
Stratford, Essex
Death Date: 
1889
Death Place: 
Dublin, Ireland
Poet and teacher. Eldest son of an Anglican clergyman, converted to Catholicism by Cardinal Newman, died in Dublin of typhoid fever while teaching at Trinity College;
"Ah, as the heart grows older/ It will come to such sights colder/ By and by, nor spare a sigh/ Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. ", third text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Ah, as the heart grows older/ It will come to such sights colder/ By and by, nor spare a sigh/ Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. ", third text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"And yet you will weep/ And know why.," fourth textpage in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"And yet you will weep/ And know why.," fourth textpage in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"It is the blight man was born for/ It is Margaret you mourn for," eighth text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"It is the blight man was born for/ It is Margaret you mourn for," eighth text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Leaves with your fresh thoughts /lLke the things of man you care for/ Can you", second text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Leaves with your fresh thoughts /lLke the things of man you care for/ Can you", second text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Margaret are you grieving/ Over golden grove unleaviing?" first text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Margaret are you grieving/ Over golden grove unleaviing?" first text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Now no matter, child, the name/ Sorrow's springs are the same/No mouth had no nor mind/ Expressed what heart heard of/ Ghost guessed," fifth text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Now no matter, child, the name/ Sorrow's springs are the same/No mouth had no nor mind/ Expressed what heart heard of/ Ghost guessed," fifth text page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Page with poet's name and dates in the book, artist's signature and date in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Page with poet's name and dates in the book, artist's signature and date in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Title page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Title page in the book Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins