Read full poem →I watched one daring beggar looping loops,
Soaring and diving like some bird of prey.
And through it all I felt that splendour shine
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A carnivorous bird that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on vertebrates.
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Poetry examples for “bird of prey”
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Read full poem →I watched one daring beggar looping loops,
Soaring and diving like some bird of prey.
And through it all I felt that splendour shine
Read full poem →4. Place, according to Nares : " the greatest elevation which
a bird of prey attains in its flight"; so Shakespeare
{Macb, ii. 4) : "A falcon tow*ring in her ppde of place.*
Read full poem →Hide them safe beneath Thy wings;
Lest the ravenous bird of prey
Stoop and bear the brood away.