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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPHINX-MONEY, by MATHILDE BLIND 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 | |||
WHERE Pyramids and temple-wrecks are piled Confusedly on camel-coloured sands, And the mute Arab motionlessly stands, Like some swart god who never wept or smiled, -- I picked up mummy relics of the wild (And sea-shells once with clutching baby hands), And felt a wafture from old Motherlands, And all the morning wonder of a Child To find Sphinx-money. So the Beduin calls Small fossils of the waste. Nay, poet's gold; 'Twill give thee entrance to those rites of old, When hundred-gated Thebes, with storied walls, Gleamed o'er her Plain, and vast processions rolled To Amon-Ra through Karnak's pillared halls. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SPHINX by RALPH WALDO EMERSON QUATRAIN: THE IRON AGE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE SPHINX AT MOUNT AUBURN by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES THE SPHINX by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL THE SPHINX by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 9 by HEINRICH HEINE THE CROWN OF THORNS by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS THE NILE by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING |
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