hawk quotes

As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the tother say, 'Where sall we gang and dine to-day?' 'In behint yon auld fail dye, I wot there lies a new-slain knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. 'His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet.'

-Ballads
'The Twa Corbies', opening stanzas.

And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, But, like a hawk encumbered with his hood, Explaining metaphysics to the nation I wished he would explain his explanation.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, dedication, stanza 2.

   The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant. You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him; Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him; Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.

- (John) Robinson Jeffers
  Cawdor,'Hurt Hawks'.

   I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.

- (John) Robinson Jeffers
  Cawdor,'Hurt Hawks'.

'A chain of gold ye sall not lack, Nor braid to bind your hair; Nor mettled hound, nor managed hawk, Nor palfrey fresh and fair.'

- Sir Walter Scott
  'Jock of Hazeldean', stanza 3.

Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.

-John Skelton
  The Garland of Laurel,'To Mistress Margaret Hussey'.

It's our own story exactly! He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn.

-James Grover Thurber
  Cartoon caption, in the NewYorker, 28 Feb.