...last way Binsey Poplars (to take a moderate example) quite misses the elegiac effect intended : — My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled...felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank . . . Ten or twelve (only ten or twelve)...

...much trust upon. I'm going to read you this short poem written in 1879. Binsey Poplars FELLED 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled...felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding...

...much trust upon. I'm going to read you this short poem written in 1879. Binsey Poplars FELLED 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, Ail felled, felled, are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled...

...the 19th century who was a Catholic priest on the side. This is called "Binsey Poplars, Felled 1879." "My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled. Quelled...felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding...

...the 19th century who was a Catholic priest on the side. This is called "Binsey Poplars, Felled 1879." "My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled...felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding...

...adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. Binsey Poplars felled 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled...are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank 4 Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow and river and wind-wandering...

...frames them. At the opening of a poem called "Binsey Poplars," Hopkins addresses the dear trees, which Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All...felled, Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one . . . The word "folded" follows the word "following" and, ultimately, the reiterated "felled"...

...full of music. Read it with special attention to the glides, /, w, and r. BINSEY POPLARS feUed 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled...felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding...

...EBW; FaBoMo; LiTM; MoAB; MoBrPo; NAEL-2; NOBW; NOCV; NoP; PoE; Prim; RB Binsey Poplars, Felled 1879 1 ach eye, still numbering the units in each group;...regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise (1. CMoP; (1. 1-3) 3 When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. (1. 18—19) BoNaP; BrPo;...

...intensely elegiac poem, called "Binsey Poplars, Felled, 1879," Hopkins laments another needless logging: My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled...leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled.2' He follows this personal grief with a shrewdly observed insight which sounds very much like...