 Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: 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...  Memoir of the Rev. Elias Cornelius - Page 263by Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 74 pages
...clouds to soar again, 57O Viewed his own. feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far...nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There be, who say in these enlightened days That splendid lies are all the poets praise; AND SCOTCH... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 pages
...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 impelled the steel, W4iile the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 404 pages
...clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far...nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. * Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge, in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 400 pages
...clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far...impell'd the steel, While the same plumage that had watfm'd his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. * Henry Kirke Whit? died at Cambridge,... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 398 pages
...to soar again, . • . Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far...nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. • Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge, in October, 1806, in consequence of too much' exertion in... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...clouds to soar again,. Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd 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 that had warm'd his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his-... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 672 pages
...rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far...nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. • It would be superfluous to recall to the mind of the reader the author of "The Pleasures of Memory"... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...clouds to soar 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 the pinion that impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had wanned his nest, Drank the... | |
 | Literature - 1814 - 680 pages
...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, &«. WALLER. Mine and that Eagle's fate are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 398 pages
...clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : Keen were his pangs but keener far...nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. * Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge, in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the... | |
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