Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 2011.

• Physical description

  Dimensions

  Attribute	Value
  Height	280mm
  Width	610mm

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	The Windhover
  Text	The Windhover 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: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue - bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold - vermilion. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) Poems on the Underground Mayor of London Arts Council Supported by Arts Council England The Poetry Society British Council Poetry Book Society tfl.gov.uk/poems Transport for London

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Artist	, 2011
  Commissioner	Poems on the Underground, 2011
  Poet	Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  Publisher	TfL, 2011