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| Searching... Subject: SPHINX Matches Found: 28 A SPHINX, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text 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 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 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'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 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 |
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