 And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.  Memoirs of the life and writings of lord Byron - Page 145by George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 108 pages
...she too much indulged tliy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: 820 x * * HENRY KIRKE WHITE died at Cambridge in October 1806, in consequence of too much exertion... | |
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...she too much indnlg'd thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid I her low : So the struck Eagle stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 400 pages
...she loo much indulg'd thy fond pursuit ; She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to...the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 404 pages
...she too much indulg'd thy fond pursuit ; She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to...the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 730 pages
...she too much indulg'd thy- fond pursuit ; She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, , And helped...the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,. Viewed his own feather on... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 398 pages
...too much indulg'd thy fond pursuit ; She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas tbine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant...the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,. • .: • ' No more through rolling clouds to soar again, . • . Viewed... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...genius, impelled to fatality in consequence of being cultivated too seduously; hence, he says, — " Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low." Now, you will at once perceive that there is no natural connexion between any one of these similies... | |
 | 1809 - 672 pages
...indulg'd thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. Twas thine own Genius gaTe the final blow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck Eagle stictched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
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...•She sowed the seeds, hut Death has reaped the fruit, 1 was thine own genius gave the final hlow And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struek eagle stretehed upon the plain, No more through rolling elouds to soar again, Viewed his own... | |
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...she too much indulg'd thy fond pursuit ! She sowed the seeds, but Death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to...the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the... | |
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