"The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins does it for me.
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 striding High there, how he rung upon the
rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird, - the
achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle!
AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier,
more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine, and
blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash
gold-vermilion.
On 14 December 2011 17:28, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> I don't think you can go past Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
>
>
>
> On 14/12/2011, at 2:05 PM, Brian Hawkins wrote:
>
> G'day all,
>
> I am running a couple of walks, dealing with poetry about birds, at the
> upcoming Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival (http://**
> bellingenwritersfestival.com.**au/<http://bellingenwritersfestival.com.au/>).
> I have many poems already, but there must be thousands of good bird poems
> that I don't know about. So I was wondering:
>
> What are your favourite bird poems?
>
> Brian
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