 NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible...  Littell's Living Age - Página 2351868Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Deeps - 1875 - 358 páginas
...they were pretty when I heard them ; but I never felt their meaning as I do .now. It is true — " Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...bison, But another vulture, watching From his high arrial look-out, -Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, •Coming... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 424 páginas
...find a lodging. We may say of sins as Longfellow of birds of prey, in his song of Hiawatha : — " Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions." Sin aroused by the law. — A contented citizen of Milan, who had never passed beyond the walls during... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 páginas
...with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the Ocean's arms ! DISASTER. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from th^ invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. _| So disasters... | |
 | John Henry Baldwin - 1876 - 422 páginas
...will be seen descending one after the other, as if from the clouds, to where the carcase is lyingFirst a speck and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. The watchman has only to bend his steps as fast as possible to the spot so pointed out, making all... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 páginas
..."Kwasind!" cried they; "that U ^ Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire-wood I " XIX. THE GHOSTS. NEVEE stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert,...But another vulture, watching From his high aerial 1ook-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ! And a third pursues the second, Conung from the invisible... | |
 | John Henry Baldwin - 1877 - 416 páginas
...will be seen descending one after the other, as if from the clouds, to where the carcase is lying. First a speck and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. The watchman has only to bend his steps as fast as possible to the spot so pointed out, making all... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 páginas
...He is gathering in his fire-wood ! " XIX. THE OHOSTS. NKYKB stoops the soaring vulture On his qnarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching Prom bis high aerial lock-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second,... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 páginas
...the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. W. Shakespeare, England, 1504-1616. 4O. Disaster. Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...a vulture, Till the air is dark with- pinions. So disaster comes not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 660 páginas
...is Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire- wood ! " XIX. THE GHOSTS. NITER stoops the soaring vnltnre On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, Bat another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out. Sees the downward plnnge, and follows... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 562 páginas
...asunder, "Kwasind! cried they, "that is Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire-wood ! " XIX. THE GHOSTS. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching P'rom his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, aud follows ; And a third pursues the second,... | |
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