from Hopkins' Journals

Hawk, is to sell about the streets. I had imagined this to be derived from the bawling or screeching the hawkers made in proclaiming their wares, to hawk meaning to make a noise in the throat, as before spitting. But Kingsley uses a word to hawk of birds in sense of to move up and down in a place, to haunt. The above sense may be derived from this. He also uses a verb to hawk in a sense of to harry and with this perhaps is connected the bird hawk.

Note on green wheat. The difference between this green and that of long grass is that first suggests silver, latter asure.

Moonlight hanging or dropping on treetops like blue cobweb.

(Observe that motion multiplies inscape only when inscape is discovered, otherwise it disfigures.)

What you look hard at seems to look hard at you, hence the true and the false instress of nature.... Unless you refresh the mind from time to time you cannot always remember or believe how deep the inscape in things is....


(and what I love is the idea of an inscape and also a habit of noticing, of constantly describing the world to oneself but in such a way as not to occlude attention, but enhance it. also, not the least bit Parnassian.) :-)