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" ... kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's... "
Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say - Page 34
by Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 176 pages
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Aspects of Literature

John Middleton Murry - 1920 - 226 pages
...ecstasy ! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bowbend: the hurl and the gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding...bird, — the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! ' We have no doubt that ' stirred for a bird ' was an added excellence to the poet's ear; to our sense...
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The Catholic Anthology

Thomas Walsh - 1927 - 582 pages
...ecstasy ! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend : the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding...Buckle ! and the fire that breaks from thee then, a No wonder of it : sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah, my dear, Fall,...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding...and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! AND the f1re that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! No...
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Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

Kenneth Koch - 1999 - 324 pages
...of his realization, as in this vision of the diving windhover and the crucified Christ as one being: Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume,...Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! (HOPKINS, "The Windhover") The pounding (and confusing) repetition of beats and sounds creates the...
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

Amanda Vaill - 1999 - 513 pages
...Slirred for a bird — the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Bmte beauty and valour and act, ob, air, pride, plume here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks...from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangemus, O my chevalier! . . . The tenor voice rang on, declaiming Hopkins's hymn to the unfettered...
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A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998

Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
..."Buckle" in the same poem, which, escaping its grammatical tie like a chemical its bond, becomes plosive: Brute beauty and valour and act, oh air, pride, plume, here Buckle! "Buckle" (the first word of the second line) is as true a rhyme word as "here" (the last word of the...
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The Poem as Sacrament: The Theological Aesthetic of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Philip A. Ballinger - 2000 - 276 pages
...ecstasy ! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding...the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine,...
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Meditating

Jinananda - 2000 - 134 pages
...External conditions are not always so much within our control, of course - although some of them are. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird, - the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'The Windhover' A mental state can always develop in a new direction. Confidence...
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A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Julia F. Saville - 2000 - 264 pages
...viewer's speech without quite extending to strain or violence in either. The final line of the octave ("Stirred for a bird, — the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!") is a particularly fine illustration of this. The stress patterns, transcribable as SOO | SOO | SMO...
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Poemas

Gerard Manley Hopkins - 2001 - 120 pages
...ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a how-bend; the hurí and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding...lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! No wonder of it: shéer plód inakes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves,...
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