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
| Charles L. Jewett - 1901 - 150 páginas
...thoughts and morbid fears. Longfellow has written in the beautiful story of Hiawatha — " Never stoopa the soaring vulture, On his quarry in the desert, On the sick and wounded bison. But another vulture watching From his high and aerial lookout, Sees the downward... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 924 páginas
..."Kwasindl" cried they; "that is Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire -wood l " 120 XIX THE GHOSTS NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. 10 So disasters come not singly ; • Sideways fell Into the river, Plunged beneath the sluggish water"... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1903 - 334 páginas
...1No naturalist ever described the way vultures gather with more scientific accuracy than Longfellow: "Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions." in the rutting season — their "whistling," as the frontiersmen term it — sounds harsh and grating;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1904 - 448 páginas
..." 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...pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, 269 First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. So disasters come not singly... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 740 páginas
...' Kwasind !' cried they; 'that is Kwasind 1 He is gathering in his fire-wood ! ' 120 XIX THE GHOSTS NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. 10 So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 156 páginas
...sick and the disconsolate, Must not on man's convenience wait. The Golden Legend JULY TWENTY-SECOND Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. The Song of Hiawatha So disasters come not singly ; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 162 páginas
...sick and the disconsolate, Must not on man's convenience wait. The Golden Legend JULY TWENTY-SECOND Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. The Song of Hiawatha So disasters come not singly ; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 204 páginas
...o'er all the dreary North-land, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; Mighty Peboan, the Winter, And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, rn.-ii ju« ..:. . • Till the air is dark with pinions. So disasters come not singly; But as if they... | |
| William Stebbing - 1907 - 428 páginas
...praise the comparison of the advent of jostling human disasters to the gathering of a swarm of vultures: Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, The wonder to me is, as I recall the fight on the poet's behalf, how any opposition should have survived... | |
| Graham Renshaw - 1908 - 286 páginas
...perch lies gasping on the bank, flapping feebly. THE CHILDREN OF THE ANDES THE CHILDREN OF THE ANDES. " Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...aerial lookout, Sees the downward plunge and follows." — Longfellow. Through a blue canon a condor sails on ample pinions, like a ship gliding between tall... | |
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