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Poem for January 12, 2026

The poem for January 12, 2026 is "Peace" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Peace

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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? I'll 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.

About this daily poem

Daily date
January 12, 2026
Poem
Peace
Poet
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Themes
nature, love, death, faith

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