 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.  Interpretations of Literature - Page 272by Lafcadio Hearn - 1915Full view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...Ireland, where he went in 1848, as he said, "to inhale Atlantic breezes, and listen to the divine sea." He clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the...mountain walls, And, like a thunderbolt, he falls. In pursuing our examination of the nature-poems of Tennyson, we are struck with the unique garden-scene... | |
 | Birds - 1854 - 128 pages
...vulgar gore. TENNYSON. E clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. >. I * '• * .-.•*...-.• . - ' • * . . . . . I - - . THE WILD DUCK. WORDSWORTH. THE WILD DUCK'S... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...THE EAGLE. FBAGMENT. HE clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Eing'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. MOTE eastward, happy earth, and leave Ton orange sunset waning slow : From fringes of the faded eve,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...describes him well: — "He clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls." Any one, who has gazed upon the great North Sea, from that dizzy precipice the Noup of Noss in Shetland,... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 734 pages
...launch into the air — " ' Clasping the crag with hooked hands, Ring'd with the azure world he stands ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.' " So after awhile our eagle's broad pennons were expanded to their full extent, he waved them twice... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...heart, and leave me where I lie : Go by, go by. THE EAGLE. A FRAGMENT. HE clasps the crag with hooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. IN MEMORIAM. STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have. not seen thy fnce, By faith, and... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1859 - 704 pages
...another by an American bard, less known, at present, to fame. Thus the ' LAUREATE, DCL,' et cetera : ' HE clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Kinged with the azure world he stands, The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls / He watches from his mountain... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1859 - 860 pages
...by an American bard, less known, at present, to feme. Thus the ' LAUREATE, DCI*,' et cetera : ' Hs clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Kinged with the uzure world he stands, The wrinkled sea btixatk him crawb / lie watches from hia mountain... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...EAGLE. A FRAGMENT. HE clasps the crag with hookdd hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Hinged with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. THE TALKING OAK. i. ONCE more the gate behind me falls ; Once more before my face I see the mouldered... | |
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