Hopkins Literary Festival

Multilingual Translation Workshop

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

Translation Workshop Links

 In the Valley of the Elwy 
 Hopkins Poem in German 
Carrion Comfort 
Felix Randal 
Multilingual Translation Workshop 2008 
 That Nature is a heraclitean fire 
No Worst There is None 
Pied Beauty 
 The Windhover 
 Multilingual Translation Workshop