The Windhover

Question 1

First Two Verses?

Answer 1

I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding

Question 2

Of the rolling…

Answer 2

Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing

Question 3

sweeps smooth

In his ecstasy…

Answer 3

In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding

Question 4

stirred

Rebuffed the big…

Answer 4

Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!

Question 5

FL 6app…/…Fire

Brute beauty… (3)

Answer 5

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!

Question 6

blue-bleak

No wonder of it… (3)

Answer 6

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.