<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Eagles - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13093]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,   And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tho' he inherit Not the pride, nor ample pinion,  That the Theban eagle bear,   Sailing with supreme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tho' he inherit Not the pride, nor ample pinion,  That the Theban eagle bear,   Sailing with supreme dominion    Thro' the azure deep of air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13095]]></link><description><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close tread,   The eagle of the Alps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,  See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart,   Which rank corruption destines for their heart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven,  Where wide the storms their banners ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven,  Where wide the storms their banners fling,   And the tempest clouds are driven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13099]]></link><description><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged   From the spongy south to this part of the west,    There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends,     Unless my sins abuse my divination,      Success to th' Roman host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the shadow of his wings   He can at pleasure stint their melody:    Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed  Incessantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed  Incessantly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105]]></link><description><![CDATA[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:    He watches from his mountain walls,     And like a thunderbolt he falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that?  The wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that?  The wonder of the eagle were the less,   But he not less the eagle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die,  Espied a feather of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13107]]></link><description><![CDATA[That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die,  Espied a feather of his own,   Wherewith he wont to soar so high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,   "With our own feathers, not by others' hand    Are we now smitten."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13092]]></link><description><![CDATA[For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13092</guid></item></channel></rss>