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The Windhover

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1877
Pages
Pages 1

A poet watches a kestrel ride the morning wind, and its mastery breaks open into a blaze of praise for the Christ it suddenly stands for.

I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon
The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins

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