I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day - Gerard Manley Hopkins reading | Jordan Harling Reads

Poetry reading of I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Classic poem readings uploaded at midday (UK) every day.
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Full poem text, public domain (also available in subtitles):
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hours we have spent
This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!
And more must, in yet longer light's delay.
With witness I speak this. But where I say
Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament
Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent
To dearest him that lives alas! away.
I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.
I wake and feel the fell of dark not day - written by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Narrated by Jordan Harling
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Background music:
musopen.org/music/40700-strin...
String Quartet no. 2 in B minor - III. Comodo - composed by Joseph Miroslav Weber performed by Steve's Bedroom Band (CC BY 3.0)
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Author image:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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sounds like it was written by Smaug