The Eagle
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| The Eagle (1851) by Tennyson, A. The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate. 2nd. New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, 1873 |
| "The Eagle" is a romantic poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a draft of which was first published in 1851.
— Excerpted from The Eagle on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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.
(Tennyson 80)
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This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. |
