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Letter "E" » eagle
«There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
eagle, hippopotamus, In Me, mud, soar, soared, The Eagles, wallow, wallowed, wallowing, wants
«The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.»
«There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid»
«The day is done, and the darkness, Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward, From an eagle in his flight»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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downward, eagle, falls, feather, flight, in flight, the darkness, The Eagles, The Wings, waft, wafted, wings
«Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien»
«The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.»
«The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.»
«The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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careful, eagle, suffers, thereby, The Eagle
«The Eagle, he was lord above»
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