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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MUMMIES Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS TO THE MUMMY AT BELZONI'S EXHIBITION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) Last Line: The immortal spirit in the skies may bloom! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): To A Mummy;to The Alabaster Sarcophagus, Deposited In The British Museum Subject(s): Life; Mummies CHILD'S ADDRESS TO THE KENTUCKY MUMMY, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now, mistress mummy, since thus you've been found Last Line: Trick'd out in the jewels kept by you? Subject(s): Mummies 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 FOR AN EGYPTIAN BOY, DIED C. 700 B.C., by MARY KELLEY BARON Poem Source First Line: It is a hollow child delicate, frail Last Line: The flesh distills into a bettle's shell, %sacred despite disgust, protective, real Subject(s): Mummies GRAUBALLE MAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if he had been poured %in tar, he lies Last Line: Of each hooded victim %slashed and dumped Subject(s): Mummies HORNET'S NEST, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: This huge bubble of chewed wood Last Line: It furiously with a stick Subject(s): Death; Mummies LOVE, WEEPING, LAID THIS SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! An old song, yellow with centuries! Last Line: Troy trembles like a reed before the blast! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mummies; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey MUMMIES, by JUDY HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Steven and I walk through Last Line: Yes, son,' %worrying %maybe we all are Subject(s): Mummies MUMMIES, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: One mummy walks on snow Subject(s): Mummies MUMMY MEETS HOT-HEADED NAKED ICE-BORERS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Djedmaatesankh-temple musician, wife of paankhntof Last Line: Gauze dripping from her shrivelled, childless hands Subject(s): Ice; Mummies; Quarrels MUMMY'S HAND, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: The poorest were cleared out simply, gutted Last Line: For your wrist. Feared, devout, simple. You, now, gutted Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Mummies ON SENESIS' MUMMY, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, too, when beauteous senesis Last Line: To drop as blossoms do apart? Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Mummies PUNISHMENT, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can feel the tug Last Line: And tribal, intimate revenge Subject(s): Mummies; Punishment PUNISHMENT, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can feel the tug Last Line: And tribal, intimate revenge Subject(s): Mummies; Punishment SONG:SO WHY DOES THIS DEAD CARNATION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So why does this dead carnation hold Last Line: From the useless past a kind of present power Subject(s): Carnations; Mummies THE COURSE OF TIME: PROXIMITIES, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The memphian mummy, that from age to age Last Line: The clown that long had slumbered in his arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Bones; Dust; Egyptology; Mummies; Mystery THE GRAUBALLE MAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if he had been poured / in tar, he lies Last Line: Of each hooded victim, / slashed and dumped Subject(s): Mummies THE TOLLUND MAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I will go to aarhus Last Line: Unhappy and at home Subject(s): Mummies; Primitive Man; Tollund Man; Cavemen TOLLUND MAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I will go to aarhus Last Line: I will feel lost, %unhappy and at home Subject(s): Mummies; Primitive Man; Tollund Man TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Artemidorus, farewell Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell." Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips |
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