Hopkins International Summer School

The GM Hopkins Annual Summer School, last week of July since 1987

July 21 - 27, 2007

Translation Workshop

Poem Selected for Translation Workshop 2007

Each year, poets, visitors and scholars from many countries work on a pre-agreed Hopkins poem to produce versions of the poem in many languages and to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the poem. For your convenience, the text of the poem chosen for the Translation Workshop in 2007 is here below.

Spring and Fall

to a young child

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

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Soprano, Celine Byrne, sings at Hopkins 20th July 21, 2007
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