Read full poem →The Subjects Safety, and the Rebel's Fear.
But how a double headed Vulture Eats,
Brutus and Cassius the Peoples cheats.
Dictionary Entry
Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. vulturepeak vulturevulture turkeyvulture blackvulture egyptianvulture kingvulture beardedvulture griffon
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Poetry examples for “vulture”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Pure water's moisture thirst away did keep.
The ravenous vulture lives, the puttock[270] hovers
Around the air, the cadess[271] rain discovers.
Read full poem →Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Read full poem →Old Fuller's saying, wise and sweet,
Not as a vulture, but a dove,
The Holy Ghost came from above.
Read full poem →With my own steed from Araby ; pluck down
A vulture from his towery perching ; fi'owu ;
Read full poem →Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?
Read full poem →A silent suffering, and intense;
The rock, the vulture, and the chain,
All that the proud can feel of pain,
Read full poem →To front the fate that crouches near,--
Dove beneath the vulture's beak;--
Will song dissuade the thirsty spear?
Read full poem →Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain,
Shivered below his wind-whipped olive-trees;
Read full poem →vice of greediness followed there ; he became quiet. And
the vulture should cease, so that he tore not the liver of
Tityus the king, which before therewith tormented him.