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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NILE (RIVER) Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NUBIAN LION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Monarch dethroned, with eyes where smouldering fires Last Line: With kings we yet may walk among the stars. Subject(s): Animals; Cages; Lions; Nile (river); Wilderness A TRAVELLER'S IMPRESSION ON THE NILE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you have lain for weeks together Last Line: While wisdom waits on turning back. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Nile (river) 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) 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) 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 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) ISIS KNEELS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isis kneels on the banks / of the nile. She is assembling Last Line: As if the world were about to speak Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Nile (river) 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) 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 NILE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The nile is made of red and black iron. The faces Last Line: In the bush. It wore a green uniform and a green %ribbon around its hips Subject(s): Nile (river) NILE, by CAROL STEIN Poem Source First Line: The silent river flows along Subject(s): Nile (river) NILE CHANTEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, you seamen, deepwater mariners Last Line: Of the sea's meeting with father nile Subject(s): Nile (river) OUT OF EGYPT, by DOROTHEA DE PASS Poem Text First Line: The flaming sunset bathed the distant hills Last Line: Of sin. Subject(s): Bible; Israel; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism SONNET (TO THE NILE), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the old moon-mountains african Last Line: And to the sea as happily dost haste. Subject(s): Nile (river) SONNET: TO THE NILE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Month after month the gathered rains descend Last Line: Like the great flood to egypt, ever be. Subject(s): Nile (river) THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 18th of august in the year of 1798 Last Line: That thanksgiving should be returned to god for the victory complete. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Nile (river); Sailing & Sailors; Victory; War; Dead, The 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 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 NILE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It flows through old hushed egypt and its sands Last Line: Our own calm journey on for human sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Nile (river) 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 QUEST FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They needed to know. They came, they suffered Subject(s): Nile (river); Speke, John Hanning (1827-1864); Pain; Africa; Suffering; Misery THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER AT THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sunset's light, o'er afric thrown Last Line: Thine own sweet paths in search of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Nile (river); Travel; Black Heritage; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND IN DEATH, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Text First Line: Thou,gentle youth, wast rival in thy grace Last Line: Of him who perished in the nile's pale arms. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nile (river); Youth; Dead, The TO GORDON, LEAVING KHARTOUM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of traitorous feet! Last Line: Where the thames and the clyde are flowing! Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Nile (river); War; Parting TO THE NILE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious flood, that through the silent sands Last Line: To float upon thy stream! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Nile (river) 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 |
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