Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STORMED EAGLE, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS


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First Line: The victor's fifes are heard
Last Line: And the small gaping beaks.
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Victory; War


The victor's fifes are heard,
The winds of chaos sing:
Challenge again, wild bird,
Battle with claw and wing:

Shrilled from a barren crag
The eaglets' cries resound.
Low are your wings that drag,
Shattered upon the ground.

Hungry, your brood will droop,
Stiffen with eyes aglaze,
If on the earth you stoop
With no wings to raise.

Flash scimitar in air,
Splinter the wind and wheel,
Sweep and soar with the hare
Dangling upon your steel.

Plunder the whistling crane
Crouched in the river-mud,
Clash with the goose, and stain
The leaden clouds with blood.

Fly to your hungry ones,
Mount to your mournful apse,
Climb on your wings of bronze
Sheer to the stony caps.

Turn at the steepled crest
Under the toppling peaks.
Hush the clamorous nest
And the small gaping beaks.





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