As Kingfishers Flash Fire–Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anita Mathias — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:26:00 +0000

As Kingfishers Flash Fire–Gerard Manley Hopkins A kingfisher. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;As tumbled over rim in roundy wellsStones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’sBow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;Selves—goes itself; myself it […]

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