Dec. 14, 2025

"The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Concise Verse
"The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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.
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"The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,

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Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

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The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls,

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And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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"The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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