 Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 3931818Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 pages
...clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, W4iile the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 74 pages
...the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 57O Viewed his own. feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd the pinion which impell'd... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 404 pages
...fruit. Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 400 pages
...fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...fruit. Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, , And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,. Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...literary theft, as ever was committed by any author. Compare his lines with those of Waller. BYRON. So the struck Eagle stretch'd upon the plain, No more...dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart, &c. WALLER. Mine anil that Eagle's fate are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged Hie shaft that quivered in his heart ! Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had wanned his nest, Drank the... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 672 pages
...So the struck Eagle stictched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd the pinion which impell'd... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 398 pages
...fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...clouds to soar again, Viewed his men feather on the fatal dart, Arid winged the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far .to feel ; He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the... | |
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