Quotes from The Hawk in the Rain — Ted Hughes
1930–1998 England
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The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel.
Over the cage floor the horizons come.
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow.
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window
Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky
The hills had new places, and wind wielded
Blade-light, luminous black and emerald,
Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)