...darksome world comfort where can I find / When 'ts light I quenched" (St. Winefred's We/fll. 47-50); "I cast for comfort I can no more get / By groping...comfortless than blind / Eyes in their dark can day" ("My own heart let me more have pity on" 11. 5 -7). 8. Although Valley, " 'My Hyde is Worse,' " raises...

...remembered a few lines written by one of my "adorable geniuses," the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins: My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live...tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet. Magda Trocme's stories were about feeding and educating the children and about putting them into equipes,...

...sonnets, almost a revolt, is the concession that he ought to be kinder on himself. Hopkins writes: My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live...tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.4 Kafka too, suffering like Hopkins in the grip of forces inimical to life and, like Hopkins, often...

...division of Dorothea's psyche into conscious and half-conscious. When Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, "Mine own heart let me more have pity on. / Let me live to my sad self hereafter kind" ("Mine Own Heart," 11. 1-2), the reader could not be sure whether the poet's real nature, hereafter...

...paralysis, the self is locked entirely within its self-torment and cut off entirely from the outside world: I cast for comfort I can no more get By groping round...comfortless, than blind Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find Thirst's all-in-all in a world of wet. (1948, 111) The proper image of spiritual aridity is...

...impulses and apparent earnestness were particularly Jesuitical, whether personal, prescribed, or feigned: I cast for comfort I can no more get By groping round...comfortless than blind Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find Thirst's all-in-all in all a world of wet. (['My Own Heart'], lines 5-8) While considering...

...But be prepared for a challenge. The image of the desert is a familiar one in sacred and secular O My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting...

...to his own restless soul, "with this tormented mind tormenting yet": My own heart let me have more pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,...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,...

...is most on his guard against it — take for instance the beautiful "My own heart let me have more pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,...tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet . . . ", a sonnet in which he talks to himself in homely comforting tones, treats himself with something...