The eagle | He clasps the crag with crooked hands

The eagle

Language: English

Available translation(s): GER

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.

Authorship:

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "The eagle", from Poems, first published 1851 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Carl Reinhold Busch (1862 - 1943), "The eagle", published <<1940 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Nicolas Flagello (b. 1928), "The eagle", published 1964 [bass-baritone and chamber orchestra], from The Land [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by George Alfred Grant-Schaefer (1872 - 1939), "The eagle", published 1909 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "The eagle", 1919 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Jacob Heymann , "The eagle", published <<1940 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob (1895 - 1984), "The eagle", published 1963 [unison SS chorus and piano], from The Cheerful Birds [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860 - 1908), "The eagle", 1888, published 1894, from Four Little Poems [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Peter Russell Naylor (b. 1933), "The eagle", 1970 [tenor or baritone and piano], from Bird Songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Seneca Pierce , "The eagle", published <<1940 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by James Walter Wilson (b. 1922), "The eagle", 1966, first performed 1967 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Three Birds [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Heinrich Zöllner.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-09
Line count: 6
Word count: 39