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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... "
Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 12
by John Wien Forney - 1873
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 13

Great Britain - 1829 - 494 pages
...clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, Which wing'd the shaft that quiver'd 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 that had warm'd his nest, Drank...
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Lectures on English Poetry: From the Reign of Edward the Third, to the Time ...

Henry Neele - English poetry - 1830 - 582 pages
...clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, Which wing'd the shaft that quiver' d in his heart ! Keen were his pangs, but keener far...impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast! " Of the work itself, which comprises...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White

Henry Kirke White - 1830 - 334 pages
...allotted to talents, which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed...impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. SONNET ON HENRY KIRKE WHITE. BY CAPEL...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White

Henry Kirke White - Christian poetry, English - 1830 - 328 pages
...allotted to talents, which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed...impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had wann'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. SONNET ON HENRY KIRKE WHITE. BY CAPEL...
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Quarterly register and journal of the American education society ..., Volume 2

American education society - 1830 - 304 pages
...neglecting to take seasonable and appropriate exercise, and thus fell a prey to disease and death. " So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, " No more...through rolling clouds to soar again, " Viewed his man feather on the fatal dart, " And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart : " Keen were his...
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dan, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd 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 warm'd his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his...
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Baltimore Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 1

Nathan Ryno Smith - Medicine - 1830 - 490 pages
...fruit. 'Twas thine own genius gave the fatal blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were...
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The Ladies' Museum, Volumes 1-2

English fiction - 1830 - 812 pages
...clouds lo soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart. And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd 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 that hud warm'd his nest. Drank...
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The British Satirist: Comprising the Best Satires of the Most Celebrated ...

Satire, English - 1831 - 790 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...but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel, • Mr. Gilford promised publicly tliat the Baviad anil Meviad should not be his...
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Hours of idleness. English bards and Scotch reviewers. Hints from Horace ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart: Keen were his pangs, but keener far...impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life- drop of his bleeding breast. There be, who say, in these enlighten'd...
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