 | 1855 - 676 pages
...Disasters Come not Singly. Never stoops the soaring vulture On hie quarry in the desert, On the sick and wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From...look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows: And n. third pursues the second, Coming from ihe Invisible eiher, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till... | |
 | 1872 - 516 pages
...observed, ' birds of a feather flock together.' What, says Longfellow, in his ' Song of Hiawatha' — 'Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.' There is quick communication, whether of eye or voice, among the scavengers. The Hindoos declare positively... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 pages
...these — " Never stoops the soaring vulture On the sick or wounded bison, On his quarry in the desert, But another vulture watching From his high aerial...the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a spook, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. " So disasters come not singly ; But... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...we address intelligent heads and tender hearts, and to such it can only speak one language : — " Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a ipcck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with piniont. So disasters come not singly ; But as... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...believe we address intelligent heads and tender hearts, and to such it can only speak one language:— " Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a ipcck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with piniont. So disasters come not singly ; But as... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Indians of North America - 1859 - 350 pages
...asunder, " Kwasind! " cried they ; " that is Kwasind! He is gathering in his fire-wood! " XIX. THE GUOST9. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the aur is dark with pinions. So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 690 pages
...Longfellow embodies in verse an old and prevalent superstition, in the following elongated manner : " Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...bison, But another vulture, watching From his high acrial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second. Coming from... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...the downward plunge, and follows: First a speck, and then a vulture, Coming from the invisible ether, Till the air is dark with pinions. So disasters come not singly: But as if they watch'd and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 484 pages
...Kwasind !" cried they ; " that is Kwasind 1 He is gathering in his fire- wood ! " XIX. THE GHOSTS. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, arid follows: And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then... | |
 | 1863 - 594 pages
...in flocks upon their victim. At first one is dimly descried in the distance — " First a speck .ind then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. So disasters come not singly ; Jint ;is if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motion« ; When the first descends, the... | |
| |
NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible... 
