The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 to 1889
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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To Christ our Lord
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-