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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DUST DETHRONED, by GEORGE STERLING Poet's Biography First Line: Sargon is dust, semiramis a clod! Last Line: The skull of pharaoh staring at the sky. | |||
Sargon is dust, Semiramis a clod! In crypts profaned the moon at midnight peers; The owl upon the Sphinx hoots in her ears, And scant and sear the desert grasses nod Where once the armies of Assyria trod, With younger sunlight splendid on the spears; The lichens cling the closer with the years, And seal the eyelids of the weary god. Where high the tombs of royal Egypt heave, The vulture shadows with arrested wings The indecipherable boast of kings, As Arab children hear their mother's cry And leave in mockery their toy -- they leave The skull of Pharaoh staring at the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE QUEEN FORGETS by GEORGE STERLING ALDEBARAN AT DUSK by GEORGE STERLING BALLAD OF TWO SEAS by GEORGE STERLING FATHER COYOTE by GEORGE STERLING MOONLIGHT IN THE PINES by GEORGE STERLING NIGHT-SENTRIES by GEORGE STERLING OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM by GEORGE STERLING SPRING IN CARMEL by GEORGE STERLING |
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