249. I Wake and Feel The Fell Of Dark Not Day by Gerard Manley Hopkins
b"GM Hopkins read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n \\n---------------------------------------------\\n \\nI Wake and Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day\\nby Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 \\u2013 1889)\\n\\nI wake and feel the fell of dark, not day,\\nWhat hour, O what black hours we have spent\\nThis night! What sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!\\nAnd more must, in yet longer light's delay,\\n \\u2013 With witness I speak this. But where I say\\nHours I mean years, mean life. And my lament\\nIs cries countless, cries like dead letters sent\\nTo dearest him that lives alas! away.\\n \\u2013 I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree\\nBitter would have me taste: my taste was me;\\nBones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the cures.\\n \\u2013 Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see\\nThe lost are like this, and their scourge to be\\nAs I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.\\n\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n \\nTo learn a little more about the poems and poets on each poetry reading, join the mailing list.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008"