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:
“Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Time is bearing another son.
Kill Time! She turns in her pain!
The oak is felled in the acorn
And the hawk in the egg kills the wren.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“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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