The "fire that breaks from" it is "a billion / Times told lovelier" than its own "brute beauty."
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}”