No horse's cry was that, most like the roar Of some pained desert lion, who all day Hath trailed the hunter's javelin in his side, And comes at night to die upon the sand.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustum', l.501^4.

Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, I can hear from the car-park the dance has begun. Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band! Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  New Bats in Old Belfries,'A Subaltern's Love-Song'.

He was a mighty hunter before the L: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDGenesis10:9.

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 25:27.

Awake! for Morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's turret in a noose of light.

-Fitzgerald, Edward
  The Ruba¤  iya¤  t of Omar Khayya¤  m of Naishapur, stanza1.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game. Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast, Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.

-Jeffers, (John) Robinson
  Solstice,'Love the Wild Swan'.

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

-McCullers, (Lula) Carson ne¤  e Smith
   Title of novel.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each canbecomeaccomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing todayand another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening or criticize after dinner, just as I desire, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The German Ideology (with Friedrich Engels).

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.

-Patchen, Kenneth
  FirstWill andTestament,'The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost'.

   Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Lady of the Lake, canto 4, stanza12,'Alice Brand'.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

-Sharp,William pseudonym Fiona Macleod
  'The Lonely Hunter', stanza 6. Carson McCullers adapted the phrase as the title of a1940 novel,The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Ye say, theyall have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That 'mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.

-Sigourney, Lydia Howard ne¤  e Huntley
  Select Poems,'Indian Names'.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  'Requiem' (dated'Hy e' res, May1884'), collected in Underwoods (1887), bk.1, no.21.

Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They love us for it, and we ride them down.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.5, l.147^50.

Freedom is only the distance between the hunter and his prey.

-Zhao, Zhenkai pen name Beo Dao
c.1989  'Answer', collected in Donald Finkel A Splintered Mirror (1991).