 HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.  The Eagle - Page 351897Full view - About this book
 | 1854 - 128 pages
...meaner hunters tore, And dips his talons in no vulgar gore. TENNYSON. E clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. >. I * '• * .-.•*...-.• . - ' • * . . . . . I - - . THE WILD DUCK. WORDSWORTH. THE WILD DUCK'S... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 pages
...Ireland, where he went in 1848, as he said, "to inhale Atlantic breezes, and listen to the divine sea." He clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun, in lonely lands Ringed with the azure world he stands, The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls, He watches from his mountain... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...THE EAGLE. FBAGMENT. HE clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Eing'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. MOTE eastward, happy earth, and leave Ton orange sunset waning slow : From fringes of the faded eve,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...Pays tribute to his eyrie." The Poet Laureate describes him well: — "He clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with...mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls." Any one, who has gazed upon the great North Sea, from that dizzy precipice the Noup of Noss in Shetland,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 pages
...heart, and leave me where I lie : Go by, go by. THE EAGLE. FRAGMENT. HE clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. MOVE eastward, happy earth, and leave Yon orange sunset waning slow : From fringes of the faded eve,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 pages
...heart, and leave me where I lie : Go by, go by. THE EAGLE. {'RAGMKST. HE clasps the crag with hooked hands : Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. MOVE eastward, happy earth, and leave Yon orange sunset waning slow : From fringes of the faded eve,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1859 - 704 pages
...another by an American bard, less known, at present, to fame. Thus the ' LAUREATE, DCL,' et cetera : ' HE clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Kinged with the azure world he stands, The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls / He watches from his mountain... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1859 - 860 pages
...by an American bard, less known, at present, to feme. Thus the ' LAUREATE, DCI*,' et cetera : ' Hs clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Kinged with the uzure world he stands, The wrinkled sea btixatk him crawb / lie watches from hia mountain... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...EAGLE. A FRAGMENT. HE clasps the crag with hookdd hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Hinged with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. THE TALKING OAK. i. ONCE more the gate behind me falls ; Once more before my face I see the mouldered... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Man. E AGLE-Habits of the. He clasps the crag with hooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lauda ; Ring'd with the azure world, he stands, The wrinkled...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Теляук*. An eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings,... | |
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