Nature
The Eagle
From Poetical Works (1899)
Nature
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.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “The Eagle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/325/.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “The Eagle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/325/.
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