This poem apostrophizes the title creature with the line "O my chevalier!"
This poem apostrophizes the title creature with the line "O my chevalier!" The "fire that breaks from" it is "a billion / Times told lovelier" than its own "brute beauty." Its movement in a "swing" is "As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend." Thus, the speaker's "heart in hiding" is "Stirred for a bird,--the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!" Also called a "dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon," FTP, name this minion of morning described in a poem dedicated "To Christ our Lord" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
This poem apostrophizes the title creature with the line "O my chevalier!"
“The {Windhover}”