 I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me; Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse. Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I...  Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say - Page 21by Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 176 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Charles Bernstein - 1998 - 401 pages
...the murder of Abel, the "long night" of Job 7:4. Hopkins continues to link bitterness and orality in "Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me; / Bones built in me, flesh rilled, blood brimmed the curse." When in the last stanza Hopkins ends the first line "I see," he again... | |
 | Marie-Claire Rouyer - 1998 - 292 pages
...sens de son être-au-monde. Dans le sonnet "I wake and feel" (101), on trouve ces vers étranges : "God's most deep decree / Bitter would have me taste: My taste was me". Or, il faut comprendre cela littéralement : pour Hopkins, le moi est un goût. C'est une définition... | |
 | Lisa Russ Spaar - 1999 - 212 pages
...Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent To dearest him that lives alas! away. I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would...spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Laughing,... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 pages
...Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent To dearest him that lives alas! away. I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would...spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. 68 Patience, hard thing!... | |
 | Philip A. Ballinger - 2000 - 276 pages
...Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent To dearest him that lives alas! away. I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would...spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.24 23 Norman H. MacKenzie,... | |
 | George Parkin Grant, Henry Roper - 2000 - 552 pages
...to the despairing. To quote Father Hopkins once again, Oman could never have written: I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree, bitter would have me taste. My taste was me.15 He would probably have said that such lines were egocentric and that the writer should turn in... | |
 | Julia F. Saville - 2000 - 264 pages
...Christ as the tyrannical dispensation of the punitive Father. In images of incorporation and consumption ("God's most deep decree / Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me"), the Father forbids the speaker the sweet sustenance of the Body of Christ, condemning him to consume... | |
 | Susan Stewart - 2002 - 460 pages
...Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent To dearest him that lives alas! away. I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would...spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves, but worse.87 Because fell also means... | |
 | Fleming Rutledge - 2002 - 390 pages
...on the food; the words of Gerard Manley Hopkins in one of his sonnets describe it perfectly. . . . God's most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me. 14 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus turned to Peter and, using the form of his name that he... | |
 | John Allison - 2003 - 180 pages
...and feel the fell of dark, not day. \X7utt hours, O u7uu black hours we have spent This night'.... Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. These poems are dark.... | |
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