falcon quotes

I would be a falcon and go free. I tread her wrist and wear the hood, Talking to myself, and would draw blood.

-William Dunbar
  Bending the Bow,'My Mother Would Be a Falconress'.

I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of Daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'The Windhover'.

Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.

-John Skelton
  The Garland of Laurel,'To Mistress Margaret Hussey'.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SeeAchebe 2:18.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'The Second Coming', l.1^8. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).