{"id":222,"date":"2010-02-21T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=222"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:50:38","slug":"the-windhover-to-christ-our-lord-by-gerard-manley-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-windhover-to-christ-our-lord-by-gerard-manley-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hopkins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-223 lazyload\" title=\"hopkins\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hopkins-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hopkins-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hopkins.jpg 321w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 214px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 214\/300;\" \/><\/a>Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)<\/p>\n<p>The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord<\/p>\n<p>I caught this morning morning&#8217;s minion, king-<br \/>\ndom of daylight&#8217;s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding<br \/>\nOf the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding<br \/>\nHigh there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing<br \/>\nIn his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,<br \/>\nAs a skate&#8217;s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend the hurl and gliding<br \/>\nRebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding<br \/>\nStirred for a bird &#8212; the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!<\/p>\n<p>Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here<br \/>\nBuckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion<br \/>\nTimes told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!<\/p>\n<p>No wonder of it: sh?er pl?d makes plough down sillion<br \/>\nShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,<br \/>\nFall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-war-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}