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Hawk in the Bronx

from The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins

Daniel Westover  and
William Wright
By
Angela Alaimo O'donnell
Angela Alaimo O'donnell
Affiliation:
Fordham University in New York City
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Summary

“I CAUGHT THIS MORNING MORNING'S MINION.”

—Gerard Manley Hopkins

Perched on a church

scolding stone

Hawkeye owns

his daily glory.

He wives the wind

and chides the world

whose children make

their earthward way

asleep beneath the wing

of their unknowing.

Being pure bird,

minor miracle of air,

he is stranger to despair,

the ordinary agony

that halves the merely

human heart.

The easy feast he devours

each of every bell-knelled hour

escapes those who live too low.

Twice-blessed is he to know

the saint's sweet rapture

impossible to capture.

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The World is Charged
Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins
 , pp. 99
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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