Hawk
Hawk is a common name for some birds of prey, widely distributed and varying greatly in size.
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Famous quotes containing the word hawk:
“The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Merry Margaret,
As midsummer flower,
Gentle as falcon
Or hawk of the tower:”
—John Skelton (1460?1529)
“And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,
But like a hawk encumberd with his hood,
Explaining Metaphysics to the nation
I wish he would explain his Explanation.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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