EAGLE

Related Subject: Birds

1. So, in the Libyan fable it is told
   That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
   Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
   "With our own feathers, not by others' hand
   Are we now smitten."—AESCHYLUS
   

2. They shall mount up with wings as eagles.—Bible, Isaiah 40:31
   

3. Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.—Bible, Matthew 24:28
   

4. When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius; lift up thy
   head!—BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell
   

5. Tho' he inherit
   Nor the pride, nor ample pinion,
   That the Theban eagle bear,
   Sailing with supreme dominion
   Thro' the azure deep of air.—THOMAS GRAY, Progress of Poesy
   

6. King of the peak and glacier,
   King of the cold, white scalps,
   He lifts his head at that close tread,
   The eagle of the Alps.—VICTOR HUGO, Swiss Mercenaries
   

7. The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
   Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

8. And little eagles wave their wings in gold.—POPE, Moral Essays
   

9. The eagle does not catch flies.—Proverb
   

10. I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

11. But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
    Leaving no track behind.—SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens
    

12. The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
    And is not careful what they mean thereby.—SHAKESPEARE, Titus Andronicus
    

13. Gnats are unnoted whereso'er they fly,
    But eagles gaz'd upon with every eye.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
    

14. Around, around, in ceaseless circles wheeling
    With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed
    Incessantly.—SHELLEY, Revolt of Islam
    

15. Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.—SIR RICHARD STEELE, The Tatler
    

16. Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens?
    If all the world were falcons, what of that?
    The wonder of the eagle were the less,
    But he not less the eagle.—TENNYSON, Golden Year