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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EGYPT Matches Found: 232 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARM TO BRING CHILDREN (EGYPT, A.D. 100), by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take twelve leaves of the male palm Last Line: Great is the lady isis! Subject(s): Charms (magic); Children; Egypt; Childhood A HYMN FOR THE RELIEF OF ISRAEL, by CANON JENKINS Poem Text First Line: When israel's sons in egypt groaned Last Line: And set thy chosen people free! Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression; Judaism A LETTER SENT FROM OCTAVIA TO HER HUSBAND MARCUS ANTONIUS INTO EGYPT, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, yet dear though most disloyal lord Last Line: To thee the heart that's thine, and so I end. Subject(s): Egypt; Letters; Love; Marriage; Roman Empire; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MOTHER IN EGYPT, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the noise of grief in the palace over the river Last Line: Should reach to him there! Subject(s): Egypt; Mothers A RAIL ROAD CUTTING NEAR ALEXANDRIA IN 1855, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plump thro' tomb and catacomb Last Line: Alack for miriam's spices! Subject(s): Egypt; Railroads; Railways; Trains A SEASIDE INCIDENT, by MARC EUGENE COOK Poem Text First Line: Why, bob, you dear old fellow' Last Line: "is the one I married last year." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Vandyke Subject(s): Egypt; India; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips A SONG OF ISRAEL, by JAMES HAZARD CUTHBERT Poem Text First Line: O israel! Wanderer through the weary years Last Line: Their warfare done. Alternate Author Name(s): Cuthbert, J. H. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Judaism; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes 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 A.D.G. TO J.U.P. [J.U. POWELL], by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear powell, / be sure I will cause you to ken it, if I dis Last Line: A. D. Godley Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Egypt ACTIUM, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Downcoming day hard bastard rolling Last Line: Runs warm as an angry man's blood Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ADAS ISRAEL, by M. BEYER Poem Text First Line: O israel! In the morn's returning light Last Line: The shining glories of thine ancient reign. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judaism AFTER READING 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA', by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when the hunt by holt and field Last Line: Than be alive to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Sea; Ocean AKHNATON, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Source First Line: When golden ritual and scarlet rite Subject(s): Ikhnaton, King Of Egypt (d. 1354) ALEXANDRIA: THE FALL, by PALLADAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have tumbled into evil times Last Line: Or is it that we live %when life itself is gone? Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Alexandria, Egypt 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 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, by MIRIAM SAGAN Poem Source First Line: French bread, raspberry soda, figs, blue cheese, chocolate Last Line: A wrap dress and planting pansies, when I could at least temporarily be %queen of egypt Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Life; Love ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA; AN ANECDOTE FROM PLUTARCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious was the marble hall Last Line: "never can live with one shade of distrust." Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark ANTONY AND [OR, TO] CLEOPATRA, by WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dying, egypt, dying Last Line: Cleopatra -- rome -- farewell! Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Death; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Dead, The ANTONY IN EGYPT, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, how can I leave this land Last Line: Shall I triumph never more. Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Egypt; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, cleopatra! Fare thee well Last Line: I hear your voices from the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark ANTONY WRITES TO CLEOPATRA, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: O for a love and the day of a love Last Line: And the taste of your salt and your soul Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ANTONY'S DEATH, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: You have killed yourself, not your master, eros Last Line: I will not leave you Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ANTONY'S NOTE, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: After being entertained aboard cleopatra's barge Last Line: We plunged into paradise Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ANTONY, DEFEATED BY THE PARTHIANS, .... SINGING A LIBATION TO THE SUN, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Give a man bread Last Line: Summer chorus of the leaves and the sand and the sea Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) 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 ARDUIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rhasis %young master ion, what is this Last Line: Men should not toil too much; there's madness in it Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Egypt; Immortality; Life; Love; Plays And Playwrights AT DENDERA, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Here in this narrow chamber, where one ray Last Line: Antony's galley swelled her amber sails. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Dandarah, Egypt; Temples; Mosques BLACK NIKES, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need quarters like king tut needed a boat. A slave could row him to heaven from his crypt in Subject(s): Egypt; Environment; Shoes; Homecoming; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers CAESAR CONFIDES TO ANTONY, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: To be in love with her Last Line: Like a queen, piercing pain %and destroying death Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CAIRO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning proclaimed by the cry of a Last Line: Wet, disheveled companions mount a distant dune Subject(s): Cairo, Egypt; Love CAT-TAIL, by C. A. F. MACBETH Poem Text First Line: Southward from old memphis, down the storied nile Last Line: Bast the cat has picked another tail! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt 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 CLEAPATRA TO THE ASP, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie thou where life hath lain Last Line: My heart is laid. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Death; Dead, The CLEOPATRA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: The darlings of the doorstep have no rights Last Line: And a little piece of soap. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had already kissed antony's dead lips Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has kissed lips already grown inhuman Last Line: Indifferently, like a parting kindness, lay Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Women CLEOPATRA, by MARY MACKEY Poem Source First Line: My body Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Women CLEOPATRA, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy hung the night by the dark nile Last Line: And under it the mighty desert moved. Subject(s): Bodies; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, charmian, take my bracelets Last Line: And love as you loved me then! Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Love CLEOPATRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mouth is fragrant as a vine Last Line: Goddess by god, with antony. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA AND CHARMIAN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm dying, yes, charmian, dying Last Line: And lock up the back kitchen door. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Death; Dead, The CLEOPATRA CONSULTS A SOOTHSAYER, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: The rose darling nimbus cumulus Last Line: Pain collides with paper Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA EMBARKING ON THE CYDNUS, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flutes in the sunny air Last Line: Away -- down the golden river! Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA ENTERS ALEXANDRIA TO BE CROWNED AS CLEOPATRA VI PHILOPATER, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Here 13 centuries passed and did not pass Last Line: Even the flies that cover the grapes of the dry land Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA MUSES ON SEDUCTION, by GERI RADACSI Poem Source First Line: What if I had not soaked my sails in a scent Last Line: Would I have moved our love, mysterious and ardent, on the tide Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Love CLEOPATRA PREPARES FOR CAESAR, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Lovely she was seen on the shore wrapped in a persian robe Last Line: Love is a chamber in the night and the earth speaking Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA REPLIES, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Look into my eyes Last Line: Laughing in the flood Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CLEOPATRA TO ANTONY, by SARAH DOUDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spread a feast with choicest viands Last Line: Egypt -- dear old nile! -- farewell. Subject(s): Egypt; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy CLEOPATRA'S DREAM, by J. J. OWENS Poem Text First Line: Lo, by nilus' languid waters Last Line: And her life is near its goal. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Nile (river) CLEOPATRA'S EDICT, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: For all I know, every Last Line: Make it happen. %that old blaze Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mythology - Egyptian CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY; BRITISH MUSEUM, CASE NO. 6807, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A heap of crumbling bones Last Line: More fair than she. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mummies; Museums; Art Gallerys CLEOPATRA'S SOLILOQUY, by MARY BAYARD CLARK Poem Text First Line: What care I for the tempest? Last Line: I have won him, I have won him from caesar and his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Tenella Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) CONCERT PARTY (EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are gathering around Last Line: Silent, they drift away, over the glimmering sand. Subject(s): Egypt; World War I; First World War DAYS OF JUNE '41, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: The new moon came out over alexandria Last Line: Near the tomb of alexander the great Subject(s): Alexandria, Egypt DE ROSIS HIBERNIS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ambitious nile, thy banks deplore Last Line: They cease to marvel at their own. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Egypt; Nile (river) DEATH OF CLEOPATRA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She lay upon the couch - the prisoner queen Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) DEPARTURE IN THE DARK, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so sharply reminds a man he is mortal Last Line: And will be, even to the last of his dark departures. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Exodus From Egypt DILEMMA IN THE DELTA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Osiris pales; the palace walls Last Line: Egyptian though your wicked heart is, %I can't resist a nose so nobly roman Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Noses DISCORDANTS: 3, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead cleopatra lies in a crystal casket Last Line: Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) DISCORDANTS: 3, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead cleopatra lies in a crystal casket Last Line: Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) DISCORDANTS: 4, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead cleopatra lies in a crystal casket, Last Line: Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) DOUBLE PORTRAIT WITH TRAINS, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning a promise Subject(s): Railways; Travel; Egypt; Journeys; Trips 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 EGYPT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still is egypt, as a corpse's breast Last Line: Into another golden day! Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Dead, The EGYPT, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Egypt had cheated us Last Line: Hellas re-born from death. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Egypt EGYPT, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Because nobody knew whether it was monday or tuesday Subject(s): Egypt; Time EGYPT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw two vultures, gray they were and gorged Last Line: To use his values. Only this I know. Subject(s): Egypt; Nile (river) EGYPT, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cle- / 1600 men to a stone. Please mention Subject(s): Egypt EGYPT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, a scarabaeus of bronze gold Last Line: And but as shards the remnants of their power! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Egypt; History; Historians EGYPT, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sombre pencil of the dim-grey dawn Last Line: Gilded at morn, and purpled them at even! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Egypt EGYPT AND THE CROMWELL ROAD, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beggar walked in front of me Last Line: Into the shadows and the rain. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Egypt EGYPTIAN DANCER, by TERENCE TILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Slowly, with intention to tempt, she sidles out Last Line: A last groan of the drum, panting she drops %into the darkness of past love Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Egypt; Travel EGYPTIAN THEOSOPHY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the introspective east Last Line: Was laid by an almighty goose. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Creation; Egypt; Theosophy ESSAY ON QUEEN TIY, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between queen tiy (consort of amenophis iii, who reigned 1417-1379 b.C.) Last Line: Plus hell herself with it ahead of the wave %a tsunami Subject(s): Tiy, Queen Of Egypt EVENTS, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of egypt yawned and frowned Last Line: Still as a sea-rock, sat a toad. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Tristram And Isolde EXIT FROM EGYPTIAN BONDAGE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: When israel's sons, from cruel bondage freed Last Line: Heaven's high commands were heard, and were believed. Subject(s): Jews - Exodus From Egypt EXODUS, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they escaped %they carried a pack of bones Last Line: Like an ark, and the remembering %already begun? Subject(s): Exodus From Egypt EXODUS X: 21-23, by JOHN WILLIAM BURGON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When israel dwelt in egypt's land Last Line: While all seems dark and cheerless round! Subject(s): Bible; Exodus From Egypt; Israel; Jews; Judaism FAREWELL, O EGYPT!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The pink-pearl blush of dawn crept o'er our / barge Last Line: Yet diviner thou—through every century. Subject(s): Egypt; Farewell; History; Parting; Historians FERTILE VALLEY OF THE NILE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In ancient egypt Last Line: Upon the bony scruff of your departing neck Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Egypt FIRE AT ALEXANDRIA, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine it, a sophocles complete Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Alexandria, Egypt; Librarians And Libraries FOLK SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "go down, moses, / way down in egypt land" Last Line: Let my people go Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;egypt; Negro Spirituals FOUR LEGS, TWO LEGS, THREE LEGS, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delphic and theban and corinthian Last Line: It is a comfort that the sphinx took such an answer Subject(s): Egypt FUNERAL CUSTOM IN EGYPT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rest ye - set down the bier Subject(s): Customs, Social; Egypt; Funerals GEBIR: 1, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the fates of gebir. He had dwelt Last Line: His brother's love, and sigh'd upon his own. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 2, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gadite men the royal charge obey Last Line: And tell the halcyons when spring first returns. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 3, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for the spirit of that matchless man Last Line: And bent toward them his bewilder'd way. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 4, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king's lone road, his visit, his return Last Line: "king of the western world, be with you peace." Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 5, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a fair city, courted then by kings Last Line: "take this,"" she cried, ""and gebir is no more." Variant Title(s): Masar Subject(s): Cities; Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Urban Life; Dead, The GEBIR: 6, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to aurora borne by dappled steeds Last Line: Atlas and calpe close across the sea. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 7, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mortal first by adverse fate assail'd Last Line: His eyes grew stiff, he struggled, and expired. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GHOSTS OF NARRATIVE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stories that make us Last Line: A promise, and they laugh Subject(s): Bible – Old Testament; Jews - Exodus From Egypt GO DOWN, MOSES, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I heard the rhythm of the sea Subject(s): Exodus From Egypt GOD'S DENUNCIATION AGAINST PHARAOH-HOPHRA, OR APRIES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou beast of the flood, who hast said Last Line: With wheels like a whirlwind, and chariots of fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Egypt GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, if it were, how soon jerusalem Last Line: Of evening winds, and shadows from the west. Subject(s): Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers HADRIAN IN EGYPT, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rare hadrian had wondered in all lands Last Line: The trouble of beauty in a brooding poet. Subject(s): Egypt; Hadrian, Roman Emperor (76-138) HER EDUCATION, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: She has read the script and knows when Last Line: Is a means, reserved as the guts of herodotus Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) IDYLL 17. THE PRAISE OF PTOLEMY, by SWEET SISTERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When zeus begin, ssweet sisters, end with zeus Subject(s): Ptolemy I, King Of Egypt IN EXILE, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, with the wand'rer's staff in hand Last Line: Lo, there will cease the tyrant's rod. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Zionism; Judaism IN PHARAOH'S TOMB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full 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 IN THE DESERT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never pharaoh's night Last Line: Shekinah intolerably bright! Subject(s): Egypt; Sahara Desert INIMITABLE LIVERS, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Come with me to the coming coming Last Line: Love me in the soft sheets waiting Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) INIMITABLE LIVERS DIE, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: How beautiful you are -- this mystery of night Last Line: With purgatory, storms and all loneliness Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE CAT'S CEMETERY AT BUBASTIS IN LOWER EGYPT: 1., by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: Oh, she would bound across the sand Last Line: The mice of the desert and small brown serpents %trembled at her name! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE CAT'S CEMETERY AT BUBASTIS IN LOWER EGYPT: 2., by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: She who paced beneath the royal lintels Last Line: Again together, with naked feet stalking %upon the floor of time Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Cemeteries; Egypt IRAS ATTENDS THE QUEEN IN ROME, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Europe is nice Last Line: And, oh, I wish mother were here to see the beautiful riviera Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ISRAEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, o israel, jehovah, the lord our god is one Last Line: But we, jehovah his people, are dual and so undone. Subject(s): Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN : 77. JOSHUA AT SCHECHEM, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hebrews are too snug in ur Last Line: Talking hebrew in every language under the sun Subject(s): Jews - Exodus From Egypt JEWESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dark-browed daughter of the sun Last Line: Tis god's, not russia's, here to say. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Jews - Women; Right To Asylum; Judaism KILIMANDJARO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, monarch of african mountains Last Line: Father of nile and creator of egypt! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Kilimanjaro, Mount (africa); Mountains; Nile (river); Hills; Downs (great Britain) LADY WITH THE LAMP (1820-1910), by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: The dead presided everywhere, colossi Last Line: Which you'll love, even as you choke on it Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Egypt; Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Nurses; Rats 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 LOVELY DAMES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Few are my books, but my small few have told Last Line: Substance to those fine ghosts, and make them live. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Women MELONS OF EGYPT, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I was in a tunnel that led to cataplasms Last Line: For the harvest of the melons of egypt Subject(s): Egypt; Harvest; Poetry And Poets MEMNON AT MIDNIGHT; TO MR. ALBERT M. BENDER, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought upon the tomb-encumbered shore Last Line: And music stilled to monumental stone. Subject(s): Egypt MEMORIES, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rare was the cloud by volga's stream Last Line: Ye glow and glide eternally! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Egypt; Memory MIRACULOUS INSTRUMENTS: THE SERPENT ROD, by GLADYS SWAN Poem Source First Line: Not enough to leave that land of slavery Last Line: When they could see it, %milk and honey flowed Subject(s): Jews - Exodus From Egypt MIRIAM, by E. DUDLEY JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Oh, for that day, that day of bliss entrancing Last Line: "forever and ever." Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jews; Women In The Bible; Judaism MOSES, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing high-hearted moses Last Line: Stooped to borrow from the jew. Subject(s): Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism MOSES IN THE DESERT, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go where a foot hath never trod Last Line: That power belongs to god alone. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism MOTHER EGYPT, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark-browed, she broods with weary lids Last Line: To see thy more than moslem deed. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Egypt MOURNING WOMEN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All veiled in black, with faces hid from sight Last Line: But souls ye have none fit for paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Mourning; Women; Bereavement MYCERINUS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the justice that my father spurned Last Line: Mix'd with the murmur of the moving nile. Subject(s): Pleasure; Time; Menkaure, Pharaoh Of Egypt NEATNESS IS ALL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of ptolemy's principle Last Line: Immortal cosmophages Subject(s): Ptolemy I, King Of Egypt NEATNESS IS ALL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of ptolemy's principle Last Line: Immortal cosmophages Subject(s): Ptolemy I, King Of Egypt NOFERTETE, by CAROLINE SPARKS Poem Text First Line: In the land where ever-blooming lotus Last Line: And reckon with closing petals of lotus flowers. Subject(s): Egypt NUIT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The all upholding Last Line: Night has her graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Night; Bedtime OCTAVIUS DEFEATS ANTONY IN THE SUBURBS OF ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, AFRICA, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Listen to the echoes of shadow and sand Last Line: Listen to echoes of shadow and sand Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ODE AT ASSOUAN ON THE NILE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In your amphitheatres of flood-worn rock Last Line: That thing which fills the craving of its heart. Subject(s): Aswan, Egypt; Assuan, Egypt; Asswan, Egypt ODE: CLEOPATRA'S DEATH, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede liberum %the time to drink and dance the earth Last Line: No queen now, but a private woman much humbled Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ODES I, 37. THE FALL OF CLEOPATRA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for drinking, o my friends! Last Line: But a woman unyielding, unhumbled Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ODES I, 37. THE FALL OF CLEOPATRA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drink we now, and dancing around Last Line: Through streets of rome to grace her conquering foe Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ODES I, 37. TO CLEOPATRA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last the day has come for celebration Last Line: Across the seas to rome to be a show Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) ON THE CYDNUS, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the glorious sky, where the sun low rings Last Line: The divine and infant twain, desire and death. Subject(s): Babies; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Infants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON THE PICTURE OF THE FINDING OF MOSES BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This picture does the story express Last Line: Because I from the waters drew him. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Judaism ON THE STATUE OF CLEOPATRA, MADE INTO A FOUNTAIN BY LEO X, by BALDASSARRE CASTIGLIONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art whom this fair statue Last Line: Whose shining scene with rich hesperia vies. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Fountains; Statues ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Reading; Historians ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife Last Line: Armpits, the bed full of bugs Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love OUR HOME IS IN THE ROCKS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breasted, beginning his lectures Last Line: So still in your hand, breathless, with %dulling eyes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Egypt OVER THE EDGE, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Can't let this aids thing get ya, cleo, oops! Last Line: Praying peace be to god and the coming coming coming? Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence OZYMANDIAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In egypt's sandy silence, all alone Last Line: Once dwelt in that annihilated place. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): On A Stupendous Leg Of Granite Subject(s): Egypt; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Transience; Vanity; Impermanence PARTING OF THE RED SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The band of the bold were gathered together Subject(s): Exodus From Egypt PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in doubt, in weariness, in woe" Last Line: Was rolling o'er their head Subject(s): Egypt;jews;moses;red Sea; Judaism PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO SECOND: 6. EGYPT, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Egypt, upon thine ancient shore, / to-day, a pilgrim late, I stand Last Line: Repelled the mamaluke's fiery lance. Subject(s): Egypt PHARAO'S DAUGHTER, by MICHAEL MORAN Poem Source First Line: In agypt's land contaygious to the nile Last Line: Tare-an-ages, girls, which o'yees own the child? Subject(s): Bible; Exodus From Egypt; Religion PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 2. DEVICES OF CHANCE, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW Poem Source First Line: Definition of randomness: an inexplicable misfeature Last Line: Trapped. Re9sist. Decay Subject(s): Egypt; History; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages PLAYTIME, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: On the beach of capri in the scarlet sun Last Line: Even the ocean responds Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) POSTSCRIPT, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Fall away down the river Last Line: It is the blood of my men you are drinking Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) PSALM: 114, by MYRTILLA E. MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: When israel from proud egypt's yoke Last Line: Of waters, for his flock. Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Judaism RAMESES WORSHIPS RAMESES AT ABU SIMBEL, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Of all the gods I understand thee least Last Line: The final beauty death has wrought on mine. Subject(s): Abu Simbel, Egypt; Mythology - Egyptian; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Temples; Mosques RAMPSINITUS AND THE ROBBERS; AN EGYPTIAN TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In charming old herodotus Last Line: Thus flourish and increase! Subject(s): Egypt 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 SARAH'S CHOICE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little late rain Last Line: "but it is written what will happen if you stay." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Isaac (bible); Prophecy & Prophets; Sarah (bible) SEMITIC INTERLUDE; A SONNET SEQUENCE, by MARTIN FEINSTEIN Poem Text First Line: Pharaoh is mighty on his throne Last Line: But hears the bright voice of the blinded bird. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Jews; Moses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism SKETCHES TOWARD THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The midday sun buckled the bridge boards Last Line: Knowing where you are and how to get there Subject(s): Drawing; Egypt; Love - Marital; Paintings And Painters SONG AT THE RED SEA, by GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Sing to jehovah, who gloriously triumphs Last Line: He reigns in his glory, through infinite days! Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Red Sea; Judaism SONG OF THE RED REPUBLICAN (1), by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fling out the red banner! It fiery front under Last Line: The foot-fall of freedom beats quick at our hearts Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Exodus From Egypt; Freedom; Red Sea SONG OF THE RED REPUBLICAN (2), by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, tyrants, build your bulwarks! Forge your fetters! Link your Last Line: And brothers, gallant brothers, we'l be with you in that day Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Exodus From Egypt; Freedom; Red Sea SONNET: EGYPT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fantastic sleep is busy with my eyes Last Line: Is shut in the rosy outstretched hand of dawn. Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Nightmares SONNET: HOUSE OF BONDAGE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I perceive love's heavenly reaping still Last Line: Twice-seven heaped years to burn in rachel's kiss? Subject(s): Egypt 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 ST. MARY OF EGYPT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong to suffer, strong to sin Last Line: Self the sacrifice of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary Of Egypt, Saint (344-421); Sin 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 BALLAD OF KING RAMESES, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King rameses marched to the northward, to the Last Line: It lighted the field, and in kadesh was nowhere to tread for the slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt THE BEAUTIFUL BEESHAREEN BOY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, black-eyed boy Last Line: Home to thy orphaned nile. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Arabs; Beauty; Children; Egypt; Childhood THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE MAKETH HIMSELF ONE WITH THE ONLY GOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O everlasting kingdom of the scepter Last Line: Shall drag me back from my immortal path! Subject(s): Egypt;religion; Theology THE BURDEN OF EGYPT, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the phantasies of many a night Last Line: And, may be, by such faith the light itself is won. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Egypt; Nile (river) THE CHAUTAUQUAN MAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had studied every ology Last Line: But they got themselves in trouble, and, of course, got whipped, by gaul. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); England; Geology; Greek Language; Latin; Philology; English THE COLOSSI OF THE PLAIN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient of days! Before the trojan wars Last Line: Helpless beneath heaven's penetrating smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Statues 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 DARKNESS OF EGYPT, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Moses stretcheth forth at god's command Last Line: Enjoy eternal light -- eternal rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Egypt THE DEATH'S-HEAD AT THE FEAST, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye glorious sons of egypt's royal race Last Line: "yet a few years and thou shalt be like this!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Egypt; Yale University THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave Last Line: For jacob's weary tribes are free! Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Mourning; Judaism; Bereavement THE DYING DRAGOMAN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the fiery wilderness Last Line: As if they were his children's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt THE EGYPTIAN PRINCESS, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was fear and desolation over swarthy egypt's land Last Line: Of the high egyptian maiden-queen that loved the light so well! Subject(s): Egypt THE EGYPTIANS, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Novelty has not yet Subject(s): Egypt 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 FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Our day is forced to fly by night Last Line: Your ditty death, and blood in lieu of words! Subject(s): Egypt THE GARDEN OF THE GODS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the rocky peak that hides Last Line: His voice, nor be afraid. Subject(s): Egypt; Gardens & Gardening; Nature THE GHOSTS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smith, great writer of stories, drank; found it immortalised his pen Last Line: "glorious tidings! Egypt, dear! The book is accepted -- life and love." Subject(s): Egypt; Ghosts; Supernatural THE GYPSIES [OR, GIPSIES], by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where do the gypsies come from? Last Line: Or look in a gypsy's eye. Subject(s): Egypt; Gypsies; Gipsies THE HEAD OF MEMNON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In egypt's centre, when the world was young Last Line: In those blest realms -- where naught shall pass away! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Egypt THE HERETIC IN THE TEMPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lone did I go within the ancient place Last Line: Across the world, in its death-seeking quest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; History; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Temples; Historians; Mosques THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: DECEMBER. AWAY TO EGYPT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough, enough! This winter is too rude Subject(s): Winter; Vacation; Egypt THE INTRUDER, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: Once in my secluded chamber Last Line: "stay""—and I awoke. ..." Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Variant Title(s): ...whom You Are To Blame' Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Literature; Israel; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression THE JACKET, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the plagues of egyp' we was chasin' arabi Last Line: But the captain 'ad 'is jacket, etc. Subject(s): Egypt THE JEW'S APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN, by J. W. BLENCOWE JR. Poem Text First Line: Cease, christian, cease the word of scorn Last Line: On judah's race—on israel's name. Subject(s): Christianity; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Judaism THE JEWISH EXILE, by LEON HUHNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore weep our brethren yonder Last Line: Israel and jerusalem. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judaism THE JEWISH PILGRIM, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the ancient holy hills Last Line: Oh! Give the wanderer room. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Palestine; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Judaism THE KEYSTONE, by MARGARET CLYDE ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: The singing wire has spanned its perilous way Last Line: "to egypt's straining peasant. Kings forget." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Nile (river) THE KING OF THE CROCODILES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, woman, why without your veil? Last Line: And I will make a meal of thee. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Courts & Courtiers; Crocodiles; Egypt; Grief; Mothers; Trust; Sorrow; Sadness THE KING'S CONSORT, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone Last Line: When you were king of egypt—dear, and I was egypt's queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Love; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE LAST BANQUET OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy foes had girt thee with their dead array Last Line: "by that dread sign reveals thy doom -- ""despair and die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark THE LUXOR NATIVITY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A full-blown, modern, speculative sage Last Line: Of thy great dogmas - evermore in vain. Subject(s): Amenhotep Iii (1417-1379 B.c.); Christmas; Luxor, Egypt; Nativity, The THE MOON OF RAMADAN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset melts upon the nile Last Line: The moon of ramadan. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Ramadan THE NEW EXODUS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By fire and cloud, across the desert sand Last Line: Runs now that path of god! Subject(s): Egypt; Slavery; Serfs 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 PLAGUES OF EGYPT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this thy bravery man, is this thy pride? Last Line: That draws, like a strong net, the mighty sea upon them all. Subject(s): Egypt; Nile (river); Plague THE SAKIYEH, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall man be nature's fool?' man cries Last Line: Bound blindfold to the groaning wheel of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Water-wheels 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 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 THE TEARS OF PSSAMENITUS, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say ye I wept? I do not know Last Line: The tears of him—who will not weep again. Subject(s): Csmbyses Ii, King Of Persia (d. 522 B.c); Grief; Psamtik Iii, King Of Egypt; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Psammenitus Iii THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the mummied kings of egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold Last Line: To fulfil thought's yearning tension upward through eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Graves; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones THE WATERWHEEL, by ELEANOR VAN WINKLE Poem Text First Line: Unending was the path the camel trod Last Line: Serving a man-made god -- and they are blind! Subject(s): Egypt; Water-wheels THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a thing to say. But how to say it? Last Line: I had a thing to say. And it is said. Subject(s): Egypt; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; Politics & Government; War; Liberty THE WINDS OF LUXOR, by ROBERT CLAY Poem Text First Line: The winds of luxor fiercely blow, Last Line: Into the dust of lost renown! Subject(s): Egypt; Luxor, Egypt THE YOUNG MOSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The world was at his feet Last Line: "to lead them, if the might, from bondage" Subject(s): Bible;egypt;god;jews;moses; Judaism 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 EGYPTIAN LADY SENNUWY, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: With that same smile, scornful and sad and tender Last Line: If beauty alwys is truth, after all. Subject(s): Beauty; Egypt; Sennuwy, Princess (wife Of Hepzefa); Statues 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 VARIATIONS: 10, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen cleopatra, now grown old Last Line: And the laugh that will not die. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) VISITING ROME, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Beneath rome is rome Last Line: Forever until tomorrow Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) WELCOME TO EGYPT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The palms stood motionless as pyramids Last Line: "and smiling welcome, lady, bids you stay." Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt WRITTEN ON THE PLAIN OF THEBES, by JOHN WILLIAM BURGON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our boats were moored where luxor throws Last Line: Will still flow on in strain sublime, %when stones, and evenmen, are mute Subject(s): Egypt; Travel YOUNG CLEOPATRA, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Egyptian sands rose like clouds Last Line: And leaping in the fury of the storm Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) |
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