The Eagle(fragment)First published in 1851. It has not been altered.He clasps the crag with hooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;[1]He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.[1]One of Tennyson’s most magically descriptive lines; nothing could exceed the vividness of the words “wrinkled” and “crawls” here.
(fragment)
First published in 1851. It has not been altered.
He clasps the crag with hooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;[1]He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.
[1]One of Tennyson’s most magically descriptive lines; nothing could exceed the vividness of the words “wrinkled” and “crawls” here.