The Eagle

Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson

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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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

1809 - 1882/Male/EnglishTennyson's verse was based on classical mythological themes, blank verse, and as the ninth most frequently quoted writer in dictionaries.

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