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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks
Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.
Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America
First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks
Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.
Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America
THE eagle, stooping from yon snowblown peaks,
For the wild hunter and the bison seeks,
In the changed world below; and finds alone
Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.
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