 It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands,— Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through...  The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt - Page 211by Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1818 - 304 pages
...Larissaean beauty, bore Apollo. cxxxir SONNETS. THE NILE. IT flows through old hushed ./Egypt and it's sands , Like some grave mighty thought threading a...pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1860 - 722 pages
...attention the longest. One of the finest sonnets in the language is that on the Nile, commencing : " It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave, mighty thought threading a dream." Those who know nothing about anything else that Hunt has written, remember him as the author of the... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...high-soul'd man — the charmer, Italy. From Ait Eputlc to Lord Byron, THE NILE. It flows through old hush'd Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought...Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roam'd through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing... | |
 | 1904 - 926 pages
...papyrus marshes (sudd), and desert, through regions of unsurpassable wilduess and barren desolation. It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream. i Likewise is he grateful to the North Wind, whose breath makes navigation possible against the prevailing... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...pray THE NILE. Л «OiraET. BY LEICH HUNT. • IT flows through old bulbed .”Egypt, and Us sand» ay, On love, and winged St. Agnes' saintly care, 4s...how, upon St. Agnes' Ere, Young virgins might have world, the glory cxu Of high Sesostris, and that Southern beam. The laughing queen that caught the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...About out Or may t> Their sou A child, a In unison THE NILE. IT flows through old htish'd Egypt and rts sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a...Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That ruaiu'd through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...the sea. 204 7 iHi IE ft i!S '-;SE C. V 0 Si D 1" T G8 . 205 THE NILE. IT flows through old hush'd Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought...Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roam'd through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 414 pages
...isles hast thou too, And to the sea as happily dost haste. JK THE NILE. It flows through old hush'd Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought...Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roam'd through the young earth, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...isles hast thou too, And to the sea as happily dost haste. JK THE NILE. It flows through old hush'd Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought...Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roam'd through the young earth, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 420 pages
...And to the sea as happily dost haste. THE NILE. It flows through old hush'd Egypt and its sands, JK Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream ;...Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roam'd through the young earth, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing... | |
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