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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SESOSTRIS, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poet's Biography First Line: Sole lord of lords and very king of kings Last Line: And dark thrones totter in the baleful air! | |||
SOLE Lord of Lords and very King of Kings, He sits within the desert, carved in stone; Inscrutable, colossal, and alone, And ancienter than memory of things. Graved on his front the sacred beetle clings; Disdain sits on his lips; and in a frown Scorn lives upon his forehead for a crown. The affrighted ostrich dare not dust here wings Anear this Presence. The long caravan's Dazed camels stop, and mute the Bedouins stare. This symbol of past power more than man's Presages doom. Kings look -- and Kings despair: Their sceptres tremble in their jewelled hands, And dark thrones totter in the baleful air! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOVEREIGN POETS by LLOYD MIFFLIN THE BATTLEFIELD: GETTYSBURG by LLOYD MIFFLIN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART by LLOYD MIFFLIN THE SHADOWY CITY LOOMS; NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH RIVER by LLOYD MIFFLIN THESEUS AND ARIADNE by LLOYD MIFFLIN |
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