Oh, Janet - I didn't mean it objectively! Only meant it is my own favourite. For that look on her face - given over, overwhelmed, - pleasure or pain? Both. The thing about ecstasy - again, for me - is that it's as close to laughter as it is to tears! It's so magnanimous - as laughter is, as all genuine feeling is.
Wonderful Hopkins sonnets, David. And Richard, perhaps instead of giving our hearts away, we should simply give them.
ps I meant to say, going back to Whitman, that I love 'From Pent-Up Aching Rivers' - that one sweeps me away every time!
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