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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE DESERT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never pharaoh's night Last Line: Shekinah intolerably bright! Subject(s): Egypt; Sahara Desert | |||
Never Pharaoh's Night, Whereof the Hebrew wizards croon, Did so the Theban flamens try As me this veritable Noon. Like blank ocean in blue calm Undulates the ethereal frame; In one flowing oriflamme God flings his fiery standard out. Battling with the Emirs fierce Napoleon a great victory won, Through and through his sword did pierce; But, bayonetted by this sun His gunners drop beneath the gun. Holy, holy, holy Light! Immaterial incandescence, Of God the effluence of the essence, Shekinah intolerably bright! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DESERT DISILLUSION by BERTON BRALEY THE BURIAL IN THE DESERT by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS ASTROLOGY IN THE SAHARA by TURNER CASSITY COUNTRY ROADS by ROLF JACOBSEN HARMATAN by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER) by HERMAN MELVILLE THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD) by HERMAN MELVILLE A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA by HERMAN MELVILLE A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS by HERMAN MELVILLE A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT by HERMAN MELVILLE |
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