The image is a painting of a cornfield at harvest time by the artist Zlatko Horvat. Stooks of corn stand waiting to be collected. In the background there is a hedge of trees behind which stands the white farmhouse and another building. In the distance gentle rolling hills rise beneath a blue and clouded sky. The painting supports the poem Hurrahing in Harvest by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
© Zlatko Horvat, Harvest Time, (Date Unstated)

Hurrahing in Harvest by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
     Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
     Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-waiver
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across the skies?

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
     Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;
     And, eyes, heart, what looks, what lips yet gave you a
Rapturous love's greeting of realer, of rounder replies?

And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder
     Majestic - as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet! -
These things, these things were here and but the beholder
     Wanting; which two when they once meet,
The heart rears wings bold and bolder
     And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.

Poem Attribution © Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hurrahing in Harvest

Source Attribution https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Hopkins/hurrahing_in_harvest.htm

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Painting Attribution © Zlatko Horvat, Harvest Time, (Date Unstated)

Source Attribution https://www.arteet.com/painting/harvest-time-921891

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