 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 quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which...  Lord Byron's Works - Page 43by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume. 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 days 83 1 That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; That strain'd invention, ever... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1823 - 462 pages
...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 the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. * Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1823 - 608 pages
...heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinioD that impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.' Happily, however, there is in the freedom of the Press itself, a redeeming power which is almost certain... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...feel He narsed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had wanned his no' . Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There...days, ' ' That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; 830 " •s•..' *•" •' | » Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge, in October, 1«K, In cftiuequeoce... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 340 pages
...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 bleeding breast. There be, who say in these enlighten'd days That splendid lies are all the poet's praise; That strain'd Invention, ever on the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825 - 40 pages
...: 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 the...days, That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; 830 That strained invention, ever on the wing, Alone impels the modern Bard to sing : 'Tis true,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...for to feel, He nursed the pinion which 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 days That splendid lies are all the poet's praise; That strain'd invention, ever on the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825 - 328 pages
...There be who say in these enlighten'd days, That splendid lies are all the poel's praise; That strain'd invention, ever on the wing, Alone impels the modern bard to sing. "fis true that all who rhyme, nay all who write, Shrink from that fatal word to genius, trite : Yet... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel. While the same plumage that had warned his urst Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast. There...That splendid lies are all the poet's praise ; That atraiued invention, ever on the wing, Alone impels the modern bard to sing. Tis true that all who rhyme,... | |
 | Nathan Ryno Smith - Medicine - 1830 - 490 pages
...heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, Ho nursed the pinion that impelled the steel, While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." When we behold the time-worn scholar, full of years and full of honors, like a shock of corn fully... | |
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