Gerard Manley Hopkins - Andromeda

Now Time’s Andromeda on this rock rude, <br />With not her either beauty’s equal or <br />Her injury’s, looks off by both horns of shore, <br />Her flower, her piece of being, doomed dragon’s food. <br />Time past she has been attempted and pursued <br />By many blows and banes; but now hears roar <br />A wilder beast from West than all were, more <br />Rife in her wrongs, more lawless, and more lewd. <br /> <br />Her Perseus linger and leave her tó her extremes?— <br />Pillowy air he treads a time and hangs <br />His thoughts on her, forsaken that she seems, <br />All while her patience, morselled into pangs, <br />Mounts; then to alight disarming, no one dreams, <br />With Gorgon’s gear and barebill, thongs and fangs.<br /><br />Gerard Manley Hopkins<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/andromeda/