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Peace: Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 - 1889

The poem discusses the fleeting and imperfect nature of peace. While peace sometimes visits the speaker, it is only piecemeal and allows for alarms of war. True peace is described as leaving patience in its wake and coming to brood and work, not simply coo like a wood dove. Peace is asked to end its roaming and shelter permanently under the speaker's boughs.

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Peace: Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 - 1889

The poem discusses the fleeting and imperfect nature of peace. While peace sometimes visits the speaker, it is only piecemeal and allows for alarms of war. True peace is described as leaving patience in its wake and coming to brood and work, not simply coo like a wood dove. Peace is asked to end its roaming and shelter permanently under the speaker's boughs.

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Peace

Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 - 1889

When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?
When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? Ill not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu


Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,
That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.

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