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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MYRMIDONES: THE WOUNDED EAGLE, by AESCHYLUS Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story told in libyan tales Last Line: We're taken.' Subject(s): Birds; Eagles | |||
This is the story told in Libyan tales: An eagle, struck with arrow from a bow, Said, when he saw the crafty winged thing, 'So not by others but by our own plumes We're taken.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ONE TO NOTHING by CAROLYN KIZER FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE by JAMES DICKEY THE EAGLE OF THE BLUE by HERMAN MELVILLE THE EAGLE; A FRAGMENT by ALFRED TENNYSON THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES by WALT WHITMAN THE EAGLE AND THE MOLE by ELINOR WYLIE TO THE GALLIC EAGLE by BERNARD BARTON THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES: CHORUS by AESCHYLUS |
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