 Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. 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...  A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss - Seite 579von George Lewis Prentiss - 1855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 108 Seiten
...too much indulged tliy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: 820 x * * HENRY KIRKE WHITE died at Cambridge in October 1806, in consequence of too much exertion... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 74 Seiten
...too much indnlg'd thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid I her low : So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 400 Seiten
...loo much indulg'd thy fond pursuit ; She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant...the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 404 Seiten
...too much indulg'd thy fond pursuit ; She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant...the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 730 Seiten
...too much indulg'd thy- fond pursuit ; She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, , And helped to plant...the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,. Viewed his own feather on... | |
 | 1809 - 672 Seiten
...indulg'd thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas thine own Genius gaTe the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck Eagle stictched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 Seiten
...impelled to fatality in consequence of being cultivated too seduously; hence, he says, — " Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low." Now, you will at once perceive that there is no natural connexion between any one of these similies... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1814 - 88 Seiten
...•She sowed the seeds, hut Death has reaped the fruit, 1 was thine own genius gave the final hlow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struek eagle stretehed upon the plain, No more through rolling elouds to soar again, Viewed his own... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 398 Seiten
...too much indulg'd thy fond pursuit ! She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant...the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
 | 1817 - 494 Seiten
...too much indulged thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant...more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his men feather on the fatal dart, Arid winged the shaft that quivered in his heart: Keen were his pangs,... | |
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