The Windhover

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins portrait

1844 to 1889

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In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
To Christ our Lord
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding

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