| Lawrence O. Koch - Social Science - 1988 - 356 pages
...PERIOD— PART TWO Bird Feathers (October-December 1947) That eagle's fate and mine are one Which, on the shaft that made him die. Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Edmund Waller — To a lady singing a song of his composing. As one views the New York scene in the... | |
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| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...Bride of Abydos, Cant, ii, BYRON. THE POET'S ADMIRATION. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, onstitution."] AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing, E. WALLER. Is she not more than painting can express, Or... | |
| 1901 - 28 pages
...spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching, I am caught, That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high, Had Echo, with so sweet a grace, Narcissus' loud complaints returned, Not for reflection of his face... | |
| North American review - 1860 - 620 pages
...spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching I am caught. " That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high." The figure of an eagle killed by a dart feathered from his own wing is very fine. It has since been... | |
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