The Sphinx (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
THEY glare-those stony eyes! That in the fierce sun-rays Showered from these burning skies, Through untold centuriesHave kept their sleepless and unwinking gaze. ...
THEY glare-those stony eyes! That in the fierce sun-rays Showered from these burning skies, Through untold centuriesHave kept their sleepless and unwinking gaze. ...
In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throwsThe only shadow that the Desart knows:—"I am ...
Shelley, the ceaseless music of thy soulBreathes in the Cloud and in the Skylark's song,That float as an embodied dream ...
To Robert Penn WarrenYou hold your eager headToo high in the air, you walkAs if the sleepy deadHad never fallen ...
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the ...
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