It’s the return of the Sunday Sonnet! & yes, even though it’s Easter Sunday, I swear on everything that’s holy that I did not choose this poem because of its spiritual subject matter; as usual, I just opened up one of my poetry books & there it was.
Today’s poem was written by Gerald Manley Hopkins, who is pretty much forgotten, unless you’re an English major & even if you’re studying English literature, you might miss him because he’s just not cool enough for the woke crowd determining what’s being studied on collage campuses nowadays.
Apparently, Hopkins wasn’t cool enough for his own time; he only became famous after his death, like so many romantic poets.

References
Hopkins, Gerland Manley. “Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend”. The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, edited by Phillis Levin. NY: Penguin Books, 2001. poem found on page 151.