 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 páginas
...asunder, "Kwasind !" cried they; "that tt Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire.wood 1 " XIX. THE GHOSTS. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...desert, On the sick or wounded bison. But another vuUure, watching From his high aerial look.out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows] And a third... | |
 | Arthur Nicols - 1883 - 436 páginas
...discovered. Longfellow, with the insight of a true naturalist, has painted a beautiful word-picture of it : Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison. But anothur vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 226 páginas
..."Kwasind ! " cried they; "that is Kwasind ! He is gathering in his fire-wood ! " XIX. THE GHOSTS. ' EVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert,...follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from tlu: invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions. So disasters... | |
 | Arthur Nicols - 1887 - 336 páginas
...vultures, I should think," said Harold. " Do you recollect the lines in Longfellow's ' Hiawatha ? ' ' Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.' " " That's just about it," remarked Bob. " One albatross sees another going straight away for something,... | |
 | Anna Hanson Dorsey - 1887 - 660 páginas
...giving them a deeper tenderness, a more enduring strength. But her trials were not yet over ; " For never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick and wounded bison, ]iut another vulture watching From his high aerial lookout, Sees the downward pkmge... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1896 - 232 páginas
...No 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." totally unaccustomed to it the sense of utter loneliness is absolutely appalling : the feeling of being... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 226 páginas
...rude virtues, as men, and pay due tributt to their unhappy fate, as a people. — SPKAGUE. THE GHOSTS. NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follow*; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a... | |
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 494 páginas
...[Kansas City Times, January 24, 1887.] TO BE KILLED AGAIN. Prophets of evil are abroad in the land: First a speck and then a vulture. Till the air is dark with pinions. Everywhere in the darkness there can be heard the flapping of invisible wings and the whetting of insatiable... | |
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 448 páginas
...[Kansas City Times, January 24, 188".] TO BE KILLED AGAIN. Prophets of evil are abroad in the land: First a speck and then a vulture. Till the air is dark with pinions. Everywhere in the darkness there can be heard the flapping oi invisible wings and the whetting of insatiable... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 páginas
...the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. W. Shakespenre, England, 1584-1616. 4O. Disaster. Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in...then 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... | |
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