 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...  The Literary Panorama - Page 4951809Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 pages
...would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to...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... | |
 | 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...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 - 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...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-... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...on the death of Kirk White, as the ground of an illustration : — "So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...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 men feather on the fatal dart, Arid winged the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 pages
...the sacred functions be was destined to assume. 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 , While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...gave the fatal blow And hclp'd to plant the wound that laid tbee low. Thu the struck eagle itretchM upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather in the fatal dart. And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener... | |
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