Cheery Beggar
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Beyond Magdalen and by the Bridge, on a place called there the Plain,
In Summer, in a burst of summertime
Following falls and falls of rain,
When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower of
Those goldnails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime;
The motion of that man's heart is fine
Whom want could not make pine, pine
That struggling should not sear him, a gift should cheer him
Like that poor pocket of pence, poor pence of mine.
Poetry Atlas has other poems about Magdalen, including one by Oscar Wilde who also wrote about the beauty of the gardens by the river.
Poetry Atlas also has many poems about Oxford.
