Near the great pyramid, unshadowed, white, With apex piercing the white noon-day blaze, Swathed in white robes beneath the blinding rays Lie sleeping Bedouins drenched in white-hot light. About them, searing to the tingling sight, Swims the white dazzle of the desert ways Where the sense shudders, witless and adaze, In a white void with neither depth nor height. Within the black core of the pyramid Beneath the weight of sunless centuries Lapt in dead night King Cheops lies asleep: Yet in the darkness of his chamber hid He knows no black oblivion more deep Than that blind white oblivion of noon skies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GARDEN OF LOVE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY by RICHARD CORBET THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 6. NIGHT LANDING by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND by ANDREW MARVELL COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN by EDMUND SPENSER CARELESS LINES ON LABOUR by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |