The Windhover

Highlight Actions Enable or disable annotations To Christ our Lord I caught this morning morning's minion minion favorite, darling; also, an underling or servant , king- dom of daylight's dauphin dauphin prince; a French historical term, along with “chevalier” , 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 wimpling rippling wing In his 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 Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! Buckle! to bend, attach; prepare for flight or battle. The verb could be descriptive of the bird’s action, or it could be the speaker’s imperative. AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! chevalier French word for “knight” or “champion”; pronounced Chev-ah-leer, to rhyme with “here” and “dear” No wonder of it: shéer plód shéer plód slowly, laboriously, and without break; these accent marks, inserted by Hopkins, tell the reader to place more accent or emphasis on those syllables when reading aloud makes plough down sillion sillion Fresh soil upturned by a plow (“plough”) Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear ah my dear Compare with the same phrase in the poem “Love (III)” by George Herbert, a poet Hopkins admired. , Fall, gall gall to become sore, crack, or chafe themselves, and gash gold- vermilion vermilion a vibrant scarlet color .