The Dalliance of the Eagles a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Susan Belasco Elizabeth Lorang Ed Folsom Kenneth M. Price Transcription and encoding Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Susan Belasco Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 per.00054 The Dalliance of the Eagles <ref target="per.00101">Cope's Tobacco Plant</ref> November 1880 552 Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue. updated TEI header converted to P5 proofread transcribed and encoded The Dalliance of the Eagles.Revised slightly for inclusion in "By the Roadside," Leaves of Grass (1881–82). BY WALT WHITMAN. SKIRTING the river road, (my languid forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward, in air, a sudden muffled sound—the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space together, The clinching, interlocking claws—a living, fierce, gyrating wheel, Four beating wings—two beaks—A swirling mass, tight grappling, In tumbling, turning, clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull, A motionless, still balance in the air—then parting, talons loosing, Upward again, on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate, diverse flight, She hers, he his, pursuing.