Eagle, Tyrolean eagle, Why are thy plumes so red? "In part because I rest On Ortler's lordly crest; There share I with the snow The sunset's crimson glow." Eagle, Tyrolean eagle, Why are thy plumes so red? "From drinking of the wine Of Etschland's peerless vine; Its juice so redly shines, That it incarnadines." Eagle, Tyrolean eagle, Why are thy plumes so red? "My plumage hath been dyed In blood my foes supplied; Oft on my breast hath lain That deeply purple stain." Eagle, Tyrolean eagle, Why are thy plumes so red? "From suns that fiercely shine, From draughts of ruddy wine, From blood my foes have shed, -- From these am I so red." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746 by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) COUSIN NANCY by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT BRAID CLAITH by ROBERT FERGUSSON S. BARTHOLOMEW by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE CHASE OF THE METAPHOR by RICHARD BLACKMORE STRANGE PERSPECTIVE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |