 | National Recreation Congress - 1939 - 192 pages
...you as if it were a wreath offered in his memory and honor. "As Kingfishers catch fire, dragon flies draw flame, As, tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones...like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name, Each mortal thing does one thing and the same — Deals... | |
 | James Breech - 1983 - 264 pages
...activities, an assumption expressed very well in the octet of one of Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnets: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;...like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals... | |
 | Stephen Prickett - 1986 - 324 pages
...than a sonnet he wrote some seventeen years later: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies driw ftime; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals... | |
 | Marie Philip - 1987 - 148 pages
...Glory be to God for dappled things — For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; and another poem: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; 'Can we swim now?' she asked at last. Andrew Linton looked at his watch. 'Yes, all right. Tell Peter,... | |
 | George Whalley, Royal Society of Canada - 1987 - 230 pages
...stood for the element earth. Each element had its own natural movement - fire upwards, stone downwards. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring ...15 - there go the stones, symbolically tinkling downwards, while the kingfishers rise from the river,... | |
 | Gabe Huck, Gail Ramshaw, Gordon W. Lathrop, Gordon Lathrop - 1988 - 188 pages
...confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy Hebrews 4:15-16 and to find grace for timely help. AS kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;...like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals... | |
 | Garrett Stewart - 1990 - 356 pages
...effects of the sestet, this phonemic meld captures the inscape of the poem's essentialist predications: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring The enjambed lines may recall the Tennysonian ear for verse sounds— in particular, that previously... | |
 | William A. Barry, Kerry A. Maloney - 1991 - 164 pages
...I may never lose the bliss of the touch of the one in the play of the many. — Rabindranath Tagore As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;...like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same; Deals... | |
 | J. I. Packer, Loren Wilkinson - 1992 - 332 pages
...is best put in the opening lines of one of Hopkins' sonnets: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonf lies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones...like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals... | |
 | Stephen Mitchell - 1993 - 196 pages
...Her Golden finger on Her lip — Wills Silence — Everywhere — GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;...like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and die same: Deals... | |
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals... 
