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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PYRAMIDS Matches Found: 18 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 risehistory 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 |
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