The Windhover, for men’s chorus and organ (5:00)

By James Johnson ASCAP 1551618.

 

This is one of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) most remarkable and famous poems, 

a sonnet written in the  “sprung rhythm” that he devised. The poem is subtitled “To Christ our Lord,”

and is characteristic of the ecstatic passion evident in so many poems by Hopkins, an English convert

to Catholicism who became a Jesuit priest. 

 

The work is available from the composer in professionally printed format as written into Sibelius,

with permissions negotiated with performing organizations. Inquire at .

 

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