Poems Narrative and Lyrical
by Edwin Arnold
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217783996
Paperback|9780217783996
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE EGYPTIAN PRINCESS. HEROD. BK. 2, CH. 132. JHERE was fear and desolation over swarthy Egypt's land, From the holy city of the sun to hot Syene's sand; The sistrum and the cymbal slept, the merry dance no more Trampled the evening river-buds by Nile's embroidered shore, For the daughter of the king must die, the dark magicians said, Before the red sun sank to rest that day in ocean's bed. And all that day the temple-smoke loaded the heavy air, But they prayed to one who heedeth none, nor heareth earnest prayer. That day the gonfalons were down, the silver lamps untrimmed, Sad at their oars the rowers sat, silent the Nile-boat skimmed, And through the land there went a wail of bitterest agony, From the iron hills of Nubia, to the islands of the There, in the very hall where once her laugh had loudest been, Where but that morning she had worn the wreath of Beauty's Queen, She lay, a lost but lovely thing?the wreath was on her brow, Alas the lotus might not match its chilly paleness now; And ever as that golden light sank lower in the Her breath came fainter, and the beam seemed fading in her eye. Her coal-black hair was tangled, and the sigh of parting day Stirred tremblingly its silky folds as on her breast they lay; How heavily her rounded arm lay buried by her side How droopingly her lashes seemed those star-bright eyes to hide And once there played upon her lips a smile like summer air, As though Death came with gentle face, and she mocked her idle fear. Low o'er the dying maiden's form the king and father bows, Stern anguish holds the place of pride upon the monarch's brows? My daughter, in the world thou leav'st so dark without thy smile, Hast thou one care a Father's love?a Kin...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217783996 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217783996 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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