As Kingfishers Catch Fire
(3-minute read) My favorite poem. Written in 1877 by the English poet and Jesuit priest, Gerard Manly Hopkins: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;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… Read More As Kingfishers Catch Fire
