John L. Foster was a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where he studied, translated, and wrote about ancient Egyptian literature from 1966 until his death in 2011.

• List of Hieroglyphic PassagesPrefaceAcknowledgments The Poems Akhenaten's Hymn to the SunThe Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor"Why, just now, must you question your heart""I love you through the daytimes""My love is one and only""Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond""Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals""I think I'll go home and lie very still"Songs of the Birdcatcher's DaughterThe Instruction for Little Pepi on His Way to SchoolLonging for Memphis"Oh, I'm bound downstream on the Memphis Ferry"Rebuke Addressed to a Dissipated ScribeMenna's LamentThc Debate between a Man Tired of Life and His SoulThe Resurrection of King UnisPrayer to the King to Rise UpHymn to the King as a Primordial GodHymn to the King as a Flash of LightningPrayer of the King as a Star Fading in the DawnThe Prophecy of NefertyThe Testament of AmenemhatTwo Spells Spell for Causing the Beloved to Follow AfterPower from the Four Winds of HeavenThe Greatness of the KingPrayer of King Ramesses IIFor a Portrait of the QueenHymn to OsirisHymn to the NileHymn to the Rising SunIn Praise of AmunLament to AmunThe Tale of SinuheFrom The Leiden HymnsThe Prayers of PaheryFrom the Tomb of King IntefThe Harper's Song for InherkhawyFrom The Eloquent PeasantThe Peasant's Eighth ComplaintFrom The Maxims of PtahhotepThe Instructionfor MerikarÊThe Wisdom of AmenemopetThe Immortality of Writers (Epilogue)ChronologyGlossarySources of the Texts Bibliography

John L. Foster was a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where he studied, translated, and wrote about ancient Egyptian literature from 1966 until his death in 2011.

• List of Hieroglyphic PassagesPrefaceAcknowledgments The Poems Akhenaten's Hymn to the SunThe Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor"Why, just now, must you question your heart""I love you through the daytimes""My love is one and only""Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond""Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals""I think I'll go home and lie very still"Songs of the Birdcatcher's DaughterThe Instruction for Little Pepi on His Way to SchoolLonging for Memphis"Oh, I'm bound downstream on the Memphis Ferry"Rebuke Addressed to a Dissipated ScribeMenna's LamentThc Debate between a Man Tired of Life and His SoulThe Resurrection of King UnisPrayer to the King to Rise UpHymn to the King as a Primordial GodHymn to the King as a Flash of LightningPrayer of the King as a Star Fading in the DawnThe Prophecy of NefertyThe Testament of AmenemhatTwo Spells Spell for Causing the Beloved to Follow AfterPower from the Four Winds of HeavenThe Greatness of the KingPrayer of King Ramesses IIFor a Portrait of the QueenHymn to OsirisHymn to the NileHymn to the Rising SunIn Praise of AmunLament to AmunThe Tale of SinuheFrom The Leiden HymnsThe Prayers of PaheryFrom the Tomb of King IntefThe Harper's Song for InherkhawyFrom The Eloquent PeasantThe Peasant's Eighth ComplaintFrom The Maxims of PtahhotepThe Instructionfor MerikarÊThe Wisdom of AmenemopetThe Immortality of Writers (Epilogue)ChronologyGlossarySources of the Texts Bibliography

John L. Foster was a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where he studied, translated, and wrote about ancient Egyptian literature from 1966 until his death in 2011.

• List of Hieroglyphic PassagesPrefaceAcknowledgments The Poems Akhenaten's Hymn to the SunThe Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor"Why, just now, must you question your heart""I love you through the daytimes""My love is one and only""Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond""Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals""I think I'll go home and lie very still"Songs of the Birdcatcher's DaughterThe Instruction for Little Pepi on His Way to SchoolLonging for Memphis"Oh, I'm bound downstream on the Memphis Ferry"Rebuke Addressed to a Dissipated ScribeMenna's LamentThc Debate between a Man Tired of Life and His SoulThe Resurrection of King UnisPrayer to the King to Rise UpHymn to the King as a Primordial GodHymn to the King as a Flash of LightningPrayer of the King as a Star Fading in the DawnThe Prophecy of NefertyThe Testament of AmenemhatTwo Spells Spell for Causing the Beloved to Follow AfterPower from the Four Winds of HeavenThe Greatness of the KingPrayer of King Ramesses IIFor a Portrait of the QueenHymn to OsirisHymn to the NileHymn to the Rising SunIn Praise of AmunLament to AmunThe Tale of SinuheFrom The Leiden HymnsThe Prayers of PaheryFrom the Tomb of King IntefThe Harper's Song for InherkhawyFrom The Eloquent PeasantThe Peasant's Eighth ComplaintFrom The Maxims of PtahhotepThe Instructionfor MerikarÊThe Wisdom of AmenemopetThe Immortality of Writers (Epilogue)ChronologyGlossarySources of the Texts Bibliography