The Windhover : : By Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 1889 ) To Christ our Lord I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and stridingHigh there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wingIn hisContinue reading “The Windhover : Gerard Manley Hopkins : : Bird Poems : :”