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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WINDS OF LUXOR, by ROBERT CLAY First Line: The winds of luxor fiercely blow, Last Line: Into the dust of lost renown! Subject(s): Egypt; Luxor, Egypt | |||
The winds of Luxor fiercely blow Against my cheeks the dust of kings, Egyptians of the long ago, Pharaohs, and serfs, the overflow And undertow of centuries -- Dust, dust, dust. The dust of crowns and dust of wings Blown from the Valley of the Kings. The columns wise with hieroglyphs -- The hypostyle, the pillared state; Dromos of sphinxes; monoliths; Kings, and divinities, and myths; Rameses, and Tut-Ankh-Amen . . . Dust, dust, dust . . . Thothmes, and Seti . . . Shishak . . . all Less than a crumbling ruined wall! Temples, and obelisks, and gems; Pylons, and bones, and Libyan sands; Sculptures and precious diadems; Great courts, and chariots, and stems Of rose and lotus strew the years . . . Dust, dust, dust. The winds of Luxor stifle me . . . I faint, I fall, I cease to be. Across the moonlight of our lawn Resound the Luxor winds, and now The mountain ash trees, red with dawn, Lisping with waxwings, both are gone, And hills in desert storms arise -- Dust, dust, dust. The winds of Luxor bear me down Into the dust of lost renown! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEISURE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES DICKENS IN CAMP by FRANCIS BRET HARTE ELAINE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TO MY EXCELLENT LUCASIA, ON OUR FRIENDSHIP. 17TH JULY 1651 by KATHERINE PHILIPS SPRING [IN WAR-TIME] by HENRY TIMROD HORATIAN ECHO by MATTHEW ARNOLD BOTHWELL: PART 1 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN EPITAPH ON MR. VAUX, THE PHYSICIAN by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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