The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
b'Hopkins read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to classic poetry.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Windhover\\nTo Christ our Lord\\nby Gerard Manley Hopkins\\n \\n \\nI caught this morning morning\\u2019s minion, king- \\n dom of daylight\\u2019s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding \\n Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding \\nHigh there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing \\nIn his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, \\n As a skate\\u2019s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding \\n Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding \\nStirred for a bird,\\u2014the achieve of; the mastery of the thing! \\n \\nBrute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here \\n Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion \\nTimes told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! \\n \\n No wonder of it: sh\\xe9er pl\\xf3d makes plough down sillion \\nShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, \\n Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.'