 ... 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 34by Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 176 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 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...achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Brute beauty and valor and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! And the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion... | |
 | John R. May - 2001 - 160 pages
...preternaturally sustained in flight). The scene calls to mind Hopkins's ecstatic vision of "The Windhover" — "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here/ Buckle!" The film's final hierophany, accompanied by a magnificent choral "Laudamus Te," occurs as American... | |
 | Rob Pope - 2002 - 448 pages
...ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing. 5 As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding...AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion 10 Times told lovelier, more dangerous, 0 my chevalier! No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down... | |
 | Michael Krausz - 2010 - 436 pages
...well-known crux about "buckle" at the start of the sestet of Gerard Manley Hopkins's sonnet "The Windhover": Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume,...Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! There is debate as to whether the first sentence is in the imperative or indicative mood. Also, the... | |
 | Zeynep Direk, Leonard Lawlor - 2002 - 404 pages
..."heart in hiding" under the stress of a mastery greater than the cameo-mastery of art, as in Hopkins: My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird, — the achieve...valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! "Sheer plod," the poet continues, "makes plough down sillion / Shine," as if this laborer too has found... | |
 | Fleming Rutledge - 2002 - 390 pages
...the victorious sacrifice of Jesus Christ. AMEN. PART FIVE The Day of Resurrection: Easter Day csso Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume,...then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, 0 my chevalier! GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, "THE WINDHOVER: TO CHRIST OUR LORD" The Great Vigil of Easter... | |
 | J. Robert Baker, Barbara Budde - 2002 - 164 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...achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Brute beauty and valor and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! And the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion... | |
 | Peter Selz, Nathan Oliveira, Joann Moser - 2002 - 274 pages
...ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend; the burl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding...for a bird, — the achieve of, the mastery of the t'lling! Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks... | |
 | Ellyn Sanna - 2002 - 180 pages
...that which fastens together — tying the sacrifice of Christ's earthly life with his airborne valor: "My heart in hiding / Stirred for a bird, — the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!" We stand in awe of birds' mastery of flight — but their achievement surpasses human abilities in... | |
 | Rob Pope - 2002 - 446 pages
...Buckle! ANO the fire that hreaks from thee then, a hillion 10 Times told lovelier, more dangerous, 0 my chevalier! No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and hlue-hleak emhers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold vermilion. While studying at Oxford,... | |
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