 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...he not less the eagle. TENNYSON— Golden Year. L. 37. 11 That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, s fondness for the child she bears. COWPER — The Progress of Error. L. 518. 8 EDMUND WALLER — To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing. Ep. XIV. (See also J&CHYLUS) 13 EARS (See... | |
 | Julian (Emperor of Rome) - 1923 - 524 pages
...6\Awx a\\a rots alnav TTffois. The figure is used by Byron, Waller and Moore of a wounded eagle "Which on the shaft that made him die, espied a feather of his own." The original is Aeschylus, Myrmidons, frag. 139. 6 ie the Christians. • This is apparently a criticism... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...Bride of Aftfdos, Caitf. ii. BYkON. THE POHT'S ADMIRATION. 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. To a Lady singing a Smg of hit Competing- ^- WALLER. Is she not more than painting can express, Or... | |
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 634 pages
...like a spirit with this spell Of mine own teaching I am caught. The Eagle's fate and mine is one, That 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,... | |
 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 544 pages
...a 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,... | |
 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 544 pages
...this spell Of my own teaching I am caught. That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shafi 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Bruce E. Beans - Nature - 1997 - 332 pages
...Are we now smitten. " AESCHYLUS, 525-456 BC, FRAGMENT 135 That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he was wont to soar so high. EDMUND WALLER, 1605-1687, "To A LADY SlNGING A SONG OF His COMPOSING" •^y... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
