 Far off; — anon her mate comes winging back From hunting, and a great way off descries His huddling young left sole ; at that, he checks His pinion, and with short uneasy sweeps Circles above his eyry...  Iliad - Page 24by Homer - 1877 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...death ! My father, whom I seek through all the world, He shall avenge my death, and punish thee ! " As when some hunter in the spring hath found A breeding...lake, And pierc'd her with an arrow as she rose, And follow'd her to find her where she fell Far off; — anon her mate comes winging back From hunting,... | |
 | Christianity - 1854 - 544 pages
...JRustum without an extract, which, if the language is a little affected, is yet very beautiful:— ' As when some hunter in the spring hath found A breeding...her nest, Upon the craggy isle of a hill lake, And pierced her with an arrow as she rose, And fbllow'd her to find her where she fell Far off; anon her... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...Rustum, standing above the fallen Sohrab before he knows him for his sou : — Sohrab and Ruslum. 495 " As when some hunter in the spring hath found A breeding...her nest, Upon the craggy isle of a hill lake, And pierced her with an arrow as she rose, And followed her to find her where she fell Far off: — anon... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...death ! My father, whom I seek through all the world, He shall avenge my death, and punish thee ! " As when some hunter in the spring hath found A breeding...lake, And pierc'd her with an arrow as she rose, And folio w'd her to find her where she fell Far off ; — anon her mate comes winging back From hunting,... | |
 | English essays - 1857 - 656 pages
...Mr. Arnold thus describes Rustum standing over his fallen foe, before he recognised his son : — " As when some hunter in the spring hath found A breeding eagle sitting on her nest, Upon the craggy iale of a hill lake, And pierced her with an arrow as she rose, And followed her to find her where... | |
 | Ireland - 1858 - 770 pages
...air," if Mr. Arnold mentions the eagle, it is not, like Tennyson, merely to give us a picture : — " As when some hunter in the spring hath found A breeding eagle silting on her nest Upon the craggy i.-lc of a hill lake, And pierced her with an arrow as she rose.... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1865 - 562 pages
...death ! My father, whom I seek through all the world, He shall avenge my death, and punish thee !" As when some hunter in the spring hath found A breeding...her nest, Upon the craggy isle of a hill lake, And pierced her with an arrow as she rose, And followed her to find her where she fell Far off; — anon... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...hell's dark caves illume, and Mercy broods above the distant gloom. R. HEBER RUSTUM AND SOHRAB As S when some hunter in the spring hath found a breeding...her nest, upon the craggy isle of a hill lake, and pierced her with an arrow as she rose, and followed her to find her where she fell far off;— anon... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1865 - 534 pages
...in its pathos is the following simile, which must bo our final extract from this noble poem : — ' As when some hunter in the spring hath found A breeding...her nest, Upon the craggy isle of a hill lake, And pierced her with an arrow as she rose, And followed her to find her where she fell Far off ; — anon... | |
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