 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 ether,...  The Song of Hiawatha - Страница 179по Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 224 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1855 - 676 страници
...second, Coming from ihe Invisible eiher, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the :ilr is rlark with pinions. So disasters come not singly ; But as...if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's morions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wise Round the victim,... | |
 | 1872 - 516 страници
...aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.' There is quick communication, whether of eye or voice, among the scavengers. The Hindoos declare positively... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 страници
...plunge and follows, And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a spook, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions....flock-wise, Round their victim, sick and wounded, f First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.", The descriptions of the pitiless... | |
 | 1856 - 542 страници
...aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture,...then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.' — Pp. 138, 139. Troubles come upon him, ushered in by a visit of ghosts in a female shape, who seem... | |
 | 1856 - 538 страници
...aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture,...a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.'—Pp. 138, 139. Troubles come upon him, ushered in by a visit of ghosts in a female shape,... | |
 | Idler - 1856 - 386 страници
...look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; ] And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, . First a speck, and then a vulture,...descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wise Hound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish."... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 страници
...look-out, Sees the downward plunge , and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck , and then a vulture,...first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock -wise Round their victim , sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 страници
...Coming from the invisible ether, First a ipcck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with piniont. So disasters come not singly ; But as if they watched...Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, Hie others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wise Round their victim, aiuk unU wounded, Pint a fkadoio,... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 страници
...Coming from the invisible ether, First a ipcck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with piniont. So disasters come not singly ; But as if they watched...Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, Hie others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wise Round their victim, aiuk unU wounded, Pint a fkadoio,... | |
 | Warren Chase - 1857 - 318 страници
...Misfortunes never come single ; " and the Song of Hiawatha truly sings, in lines of Longfellow measure, " So disasters come not singly ; But, as if they watched...then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish." But there is no hardest fate, no deepest woe in the trial-lives of wandering souls. Superlatives are... | |
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