 | Gerhard Joseph - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 300 pages
...meditation, to an eagle which clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...crawls; He watches from his mountain walls... And then, catching sight of his unnamed prey, far, far beneath him, "like a thunderbolt he falls." Passionate... | |
 | Edward Hamilton Aitken - Nature - 2005 - 304 pages
...from which it descends to carry off lambs and occasionally babies. This is the Eagle of the poets: He clasps the crag with hooked hands, Close to the Sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls, He watches from his mountain... | |
 | John Carey - Art - 2006 - 300 pages
...illustrates this: He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun, in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt, he falls. From talking to students about this poem I have found that the word nearly everyone reacts to most... | |
 | Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 134 pages
...meadow. THE EAGLE He clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Alfred, Lord Tennyson THE SEA GULL All day long o'er the ocean I fly, My white wings beating fast through... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - Education - 2008 - 128 pages
...Alfred Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him...his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun by Walt Whitman Give me the splendid silent sun with all its beams... | |
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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 beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. 
