Taloned

Birds maiden-faced, but trailing filth obscene, / with taloned hands and looks for ever pale and lean.

Back, from another quarter of the sky, / dark-ambushed, round the clamorous Harpies fly / with taloned claws, and taste and taint the prey.

Weakness was her enemy, the taloned beast that lived in her chest and couldn't wait to sharpen its fangs on her heart.