preyest

Updated: May 22, 2025

Science, true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes, 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, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?

Elizabeth Atkins - The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years

There are things in Nature still which prompt the naturalist who has not atrophied his inner eye and starved his imagination to cry out: Science ... Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

Edward Hamilton Aitken - Concerning Animals and Other Matters

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jeweled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?

Sherwin Cody - Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor : A Book for Young Americans

Tur, the overseer of the houses, says through his god Tmu: O thou wax one who takest thy victims captive and destroyest them, who preyest upon the weak and helpless, may I never be thy victim; may I never suffer collapse before thee. May the venom never enter my limbs, which are as those of the god Tmu. O let not the pains of death, which have reached thee; come upon me.

- The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy