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Subject: SPHINX
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SPHINX, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never
Last Line: I am one of those who know all you know and I keep my questions: I know the answers you hold.
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Egypt; Sphinx


AMERICAN SPHINX, by PAUL HOOVER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As it arranges
Last Line: With scars, blur %to the bone
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx; United States


APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The true sphynx's form's the same as
Last Line: Earth would fall from its foundation.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Egypt; Riddles; Sphinx; Dead, The; World


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


LE REPOS EN EGYPTE: THE SPHINX, by AGNES REPPLIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day I watched the stretch of burning sand
Last Line: Lay stretched o'er-wearied. On my breast of stone %rested the crucified
Subject(s): Egypt; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Sphinx


QUATRAIN: THE IRON AGE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wide-lipped sphinx, with bent perplexed brow
Last Line: Sends echo flying through the memphian vale.
Subject(s): Sphinx


REMORSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrote my remorse on a forest-leaf
Last Line: I shall never know!
Subject(s): Egypt; Grief; Remorse; Sea; Sphinx; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


SPHINX, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits upon my bed at dusk, unsought
Last Line: Finding their strength in conflict's tortured hour.
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx


SPHINX AMONG THE ROSES, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shaped of white stone, in the june garden lies
Last Line: In the still garden only sparrows chat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von
Subject(s): Egypt; Gardens & Gardening; Sphinx


SPHINX IN THE MUSEUM AT DELPHI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: My eyes are blank [or, vacant]
Last Line: The taut, broken, obdurate, %skull of a doll
Subject(s): Egypt; Museums; Sphinx; Travel


SPHINX-MONEY, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where pyramids and temple wrecks are piled
Last Line: To amon-ra through karnak's pillared halls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Egypt; Ruins; Sphinx


TENTH FLOOR, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Odysseus, never been here
Last Line: Before we vanish for good %and on time
Subject(s): Egypt; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sphinx; Ulysses


THE CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory
Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei


THE NILE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a single cloud bedims the sky
Last Line: The nile of ages ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Crocodiles; Egypt; Lotus; Nile (river); Sphinx; Lotos


THE SPHINX, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wanderer, behold life's riddle, writ in stone
Last Line: Dwindle to nothingness before thee -- sphinx.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx


THE SPHINX, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They glare - those stony eyes!
Last Line: The darling of the nile.
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx


THE SPHINX, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sphinx is drowsy, / her wings are furled
Last Line: "is master of all I am."
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx


THE SPHINX, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden with the dreaming eyes
Last Line: How can she be but maiden then?
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx


THE SPHINX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know all about the sphinx
Last Line: She was just cut out for that!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Silence; Sphinx; Statues; Nightmares


THE SPHINX, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Couchant upon the illimitable sand
Last Line: Inscrutable as is the face of death!
Subject(s): Egypt; History; Monuments; Sphinx; Historians


THE SPHINX, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks
Last Line: And weeps for every soul that dies, and weeps for every soul in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt; Sphinx


THE SPHINX AT MOUNT AUBURN, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How grand she is enthroned among the dead
Last Line: Dread as the lion in his majesty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Egypt; Sphinx


THE SPHINX SPEAKS, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carved by a mighty race whose vanished hands
Last Line: To whom I spake, one awful night alone!
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx


THERE ARE NO PEOPLE SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You say there are no people
Last Line: Smoke was sprading
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx


TO THE SPHINX, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat at eve time on the lybian sands
Last Line: Against her breasts of history.
Subject(s): Egypt; Nile (river); Sphinx


TO THE SPHINX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sleepless sphinx!
Last Line: Eternal sphinx!
Subject(s): Earth; Egypt; Patience; Sphinx; Time; World


TO THE SPHINX, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, not alone in egypt's desert land
Last Line: Hath seared the human heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx


TWO RIDDLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sphinx was a monster that would eat
Last Line: And runs away at last on four?
Subject(s): Egypt; Fate; Oedipus; Riddles; Sphinx; Destiny