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Subject: PYRAMIDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLAIRVOYANT'S READING, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unlock the sphinx, she tells me, there's
Last Line: Is forgiven. Now go, unlock the sphinx
Subject(s): Egypt; Extrasensory Perception; Museums; Pyramids; Sphinx


DREAM O' NILE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Egyptian baccharis! I dream a dream
Last Line: Souls rise and rise—history rests upon thy myrrh.
Subject(s): Egypt; Nile (river); Pyramids


IN PHARAOH'S TOMB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In pharaoh's tomb the darkness reigns
Last Line: "vision's not what you wanted."
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones


PELTERS OF PYRAMIDS, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shoal of idlers, from a merchant craft
Last Line: Whereon no trace of mortal dust was seen.
Subject(s): Life; Pyramids


PYRAMID, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rue saint-honore, in homage
Last Line: In his white coat %remembered a winter's shadows
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Pyramids


PYRAMID, by LAURENCE W. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at a group of people, any age
Last Line: Evidently elevated, fundamentally defeated
Subject(s): Change; Pyramids; Relationships


PYRAMIDS, by LLOYD FRANK MERRELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: We build our pyramids of human stone
Last Line: In building christ's own pyramid of sharing?
Subject(s): Pyramids; Religion; Theology


SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR, by JOHN UPDIKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels
Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones


SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels
Last Line: Majesty! We have lifted you up on the backs of slaves %whoselives you still hold as the curved earth
Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids


THE EVENING OF THE PYRAMIDS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A summer night in the desert is as welcome
Last Line: There was a dark room and an empty coffer for a king.
Subject(s): Egypt; Mortality; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pyramids


THE GREAT PYRAMID, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your masonry - and is it man's
Last Line: Imposing him.
Subject(s): Pyramids


THE PYRAMIDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the desert of a mystic land
Last Line: With thought's unending caravan between.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Pyramids


THE SCARAB, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spoil of the tomb of kings
Last Line: Since you are vowed to my lilian's ring!
Subject(s): Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Tombs; Tombstones


THE SONG OF THE PYRAMID-BUILDERS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We lived below the elephantine / in a papyrus-wattled village
Last Line: And woe to him who flayed us!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Egypt; Pyramids; Slavery; Serfs


THE SPELL OF EGYPT, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a splendid hush about this place
Last Line: Of romance and of history that breathe within thy bosom?
Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Egypt; Pyramids; Spells


THE WRITER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the shade of the pyramids
Last Line: Fled away like a flame.
Subject(s): Mythology; Pyramids; Troy; Writing & Writers


TRUMMERFRAUEN (THE RUBBLE-WOMEN), by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the old paintings, the ones with silken oils
Last Line: Never stop: tap tap, tap tap, tap tap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Altars; Architecture & Architects; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Pyramids; Art Gallerys


WHO BUILT THE PYRAMIDS?, by MARK NEIDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kill flies, not ants. We %built the pyramids. Pound
Last Line: And, while we're at it, hieroglyphics %you know, were invented by us...
Subject(s): Pyramids