The Eagle

Tennyson's six-line poem of an eagle on a mountain crag above the sea.

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.

Famous lines

• He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
  Close to the sun in lonely lands,
  Ring’d with the azure world, he stands

  In context

  • Animals
  • Nature

• The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
  He watches from his mountain walls,
  And like a thunderbolt he falls.

  In context

  • Animals
  • Nature