 So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling 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...  The Birds of Aristophanes - Page 177by Aristophanes - 1864 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose - Judges - 1914 - 426 pages
...deepest and are the most incurable of all. Another poet has expressed the thought better than I can do : "So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain No more...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... | |
 | William H. Wallace - Lawyers - 1914 - 368 pages
...eagle, struck down in his flight for prey, by the aid of a feather dropped from his own wing : — " So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain, No more...that quivered in his heart. " Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel, And the same plumage that had... | |
 | Mexican Bureau of Information, New York - Mexico - 1914 - 582 pages
..."Help Mexico, lest over her bloody grave are sown the dragons' teeth of our own destruction." -. " So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain No more...And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." CHARLES SUMNER YOUNG. July Fourth, 1916. [ix] [FOREWORD] can soil? Yes. Perpetuate the spirit of '76,... | |
 | Charles Sumner Young - Mexico - 1916 - 70 pages
...eagle: "Help Mexico, lest over her bloody grave are sown the dragons' teeth of our own destruction." . " So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain No more...And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart." CHARLES SUMNER YOUNG. July Fourth, 1916. [ix] I- |- ii I - 1 hi iiS'UBLICS \NAHUAC CLUB: |pp*eare two... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...of jEsop. 48. Eagle anil the Arrow. (See also BYRON, MOORE, WALLER, also PHILLIPS under RELIGION) 20 wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart. BYRON — English Bards ami Scotch Reviewers. L. 826.... | |
 | Robert Mellors - Biography - 1924 - 368 pages
...completed the physical injury which had begun in earlier years, uses a beautiful figure of him: — " So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart." His poems were collected, and edited by Southey, the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. Macbetlt. Aa L Se. 7. SHAKESPEARE. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Lnzliih Bards and Scotch Kmien.tr s. BYRON. DESPAIR. Talk not of comfort ; 't is for lighter ills :... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1825 - 456 pages
...fruit, 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in hie heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary Criticism - 1925 - 1118 pages
...in literature. Byron has it, in "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," in the lines commemorative of Kirke White : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar againt Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart :... | |
 | John Marvin Hunter, George Washington Saunders - Cattle trade - 1925 - 1068 pages
...two exercises caused an abscess to form on his liver which called him hence in 1876. "So struck the eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Views his own feather upon the fatal dart That winged the shaft that quivered to his heart." Too oft,... | |
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