The Wreck of the Deutschland

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1875)

I kiss my hand
To the stars, lovely-asunder
Starlight, wafting him out of it; and
Glow, glory in thunder;
Kiss my hand to the dappled-with-damson west:

The Wreck of the Deutschland, st. 5, ll. 1–5

Into the snows she sweeps,
Hurling the haven behind,
The Deutschland, on Sunday; and so the sky keeps,
For the infinite air is unkind,

The Wreck of the Deutschland, st. 12, ll. 1–4

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