“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.”
Rogue Herries (1930) First lines
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Hugh Walpole6
New Zealand writer 1884–1941Related quotes
“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: The Complete Poems
“Like a trembling hind pursued by a Hyrcanian tigress, or like a pigeon that checks her flight when she sees a hawk in the sky, or like a hare that dives into the thicket at sight of the eagle hovering with outstretched wings in the cloudless sky.”
...ceu tigride cerva
Hyrcana cum pressa tremit, vel territa pennas
colligit accipitrem cernens in nube columba,
aut dumis subit, albenti si sensit in aethra
librantem nisus aquilam, lepus.
Book V, lines 280–284
Punica
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
"I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by J. Robbins, (J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83).
Andrew Thomson (1814–1901) British writer
Samuel Rutherford Unwin Bros, Gresham Press, London 1891
Epes Sargent A Life on the Ocean Wave
A Life on the Ocean Wave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)