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Poem by Alfred Tennyson


The Eagle


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 Tennyson


Alfred Tennyson's other poems:
  1. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
  2. The Daisy, Written at Edinburgh
  3. To the Queen (Revered, beloved — O you that hold)
  4. St. Agnes’ Eve
  5. The Miller’s Daughter


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