 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...  Lord Byron's Works - Page 43by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...far to feel. He nursed the pinion which impelid the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd e tu thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste О More rich than other climes' f enlighten'd days, That splendid iies are all the poet's praise ; That strain'd invention, ever on the... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 84 pages
...heart; Keen were his pangs, hut keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. I know that I voice, Mr. Speaker, the feeling of every one here who knew this deserving and able public... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feet He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, While ȵEƻ U On the Death of Kirke White. Waller says, in his " Lines to a Lady singing a Song of his own Composing,"—... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...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 last life-drop of his bleeding breast. LORD BYRON. * Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...; 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 last life-drop of his bleeding breast. DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, whi:h was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the Did wander... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...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 last life-drop of his bleeding breast. DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 560 pages
...; 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...days, That splendid lies are all the poet's praise; 850 i. The spoiler came ; and all thy promise fair Has sought tlie grave, to sleep for ever there.... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - Bar associations - 1905 - 272 pages
...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 last life-drop of his bleeding breast." Our dead brother was the fairest but hardest fighter we ever met at the Bar. At all times he was a... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 392 pages
...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 last life-drop of his bleeding breast." That we may fully estimate this system of conduct in its enormity, we must call to mind the evils of... | |
 | English language - 1900 - 570 pages
...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 last life-drop of bis bleeding breast. IX. There is a double beauty in metaphors that are not only metaphors but, at... | |
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