 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 pages
...allotted to talents, which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 74 pages
...fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid I her low : So 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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1809 - 890 pages
...So the struck Eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, [again, No more through rolling clouds to soar ViewM- his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiv«r'd in his heart : Keen were his pang), but keener far to feel [steel ; He nurs'd the pinion... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 400 pages
...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...the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd the' pinion which impell'd the steel, While the same plumage... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 404 pages
...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...the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd the pinion which impell'd the steel, While the same plumage... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...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...the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd the, pinion which impelfd the steel, While the same plumage... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 672 pages
...gaTe the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck Eagle stictched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to...the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nurs'd the pinion which impell'd the steel, While the same plumage... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...beautiful lines of the improvident Byron on the death of Kirk White, as the ground of an illustration : — "So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1814 - 88 pages
...wound that laid thee low : So the struek eagle stretehed upon the plain, No more through rolling elouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, hut keener far to feel He nursed... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...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 quiver'd in his heart, &c. WALLER. Mine anil that Eagle's fate are one, Who on the shaft that made... | |
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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 more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that... 
