Ancient Egypt in Poetry

Donald P. Ryan is an Egyptologist and archaeologist who has excavated for several years in the Valley of the Kings.

• IntroductionA Dream Of Egypt: Water, Sky & EarthEgypt, Thomas Bailey AldrichEgypt, Alfred TennysonA Dream of Egypt, Evelyn DouglasEgypt, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA Dream of Egypt, John TodhunterEgypt and the Nile, Bernard BartonThe Nile, James Leigh HuntTo the Nile, John KeatsTo the Nile, Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Lotus of the Nile, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton EatonTo the Nile, Bayard TaylorThe Desert, Mathilde BlindInevitable Death, Michael FieldRuins and ArtifactsEgypt’s Might Is Fallen Down, Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeThe Eyes of the Nile, Lydia Howard SigourneyRuins, Jane Francesca WildeOzymandias, Percy Bysshe ShelleyOzymandias: On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Horace SmithShelley’s Ozymandias, Richard Watson GilderSonnet LX, Robert FergusonBefore the Statue of Chephren, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyTo a Pair of Egyptian Slippers, Edwin ArnoldAn Egyptian Gem, Thomas Stephens CollierThe Papyrus, Robert Treat PaineA Papyrus Hunt, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyThe Obelisk, Richard Watson GilderThe Obelisk During The Great Frost -1881, Mathilde BlindCleopatra’s Needle, Alfred TennysonUp & Down The NileAlexandria, Nicholas MichellSais, Richard Chenevix TrenchHeliopolis, Joseph EllisThe Dream-City Of Khuenaten, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyThe Sons of Cush, William Lisle BowlesThebes, Seymour Green Wheeler BenjaminLuxor, Richard Monckton MilnesThe Theban Plain, Charles Dent BellThe Colossi on the Plain, Mathilde BlindWritten on the Plains of Thebes, John William BurgonThe Twin Colossi, Charles Dent BellSyene, Joseph EllisThe Pyramids & SphinxMorning Mist on the Great Pyramid, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyThe Pyramid, Samuel BeadleThe Pyramids, John TabbThe Great Pyramid, Hermann MelvilleTo Peter Cooper, Anne Charlotte Lynch BottaThe Great Pyramid, Isaac McLellanThe Sphinx, Mathilde BlindThe Sphinx, Henry Howard BrownellSonnet XL, Robert FergusonThe Sphinx Speaks, Francis Saltus SaltusPersonalitiesWhere are the Great and Sceptred Kings? Charles Dent BellCheops, George Gordon Noel ByronQueen Hatasu, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyRameses II, Charles Dent BellRameses II (Boulak Museum), Charles Dent BellCleopatra, Algernon Charles SwineburneAntony and Cleopatra, William Haines LytleCleopatra Dying, Thomas Stephens CollierDeath of Cleopatra, Alice CaryGods & TemplesThe Priestess of Athor, Evelyn DouglasEgypt, Silas W. MitchellThe Temple of Sais, James Drummond BurnsAt Denderah, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyKarnak, Richard Watson GilderKarnak By Moonlight, Charles Dent BellAt Kom Ombo, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyPhilae, Richard Monckton MilnesAt Philae, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyAboo Simbel, Charles Dent BellIpsamboul, Nicholas MichellAbu Simbel, John Bruce NortonTombs & MummiesSonnet XXXVI, Robert FergusonAt The Tomb of Thi, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyThe Egyptian Tomb, William Lisle BowlesThe Tombs of the Kings, Mathilde BlindIn a King’s Tomb, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyValley of the Kings, Nicholas MichellSecret of an Egyptian Tomb, F. Harald WilliamsThe Memphian Mummy, William Howe Cuyler HosmerAddress to a Mummy at Belzoni’s Exhibition, Horace SmithOpening The Mummy, Benjamin Penhallow ShillaberThe Daughter of Pharaoh, Charles Warren StoddardThe Mummy of Sesostris, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyEgypt & The Bible, & MysticismThe Plagues of Egypt, Jones VeryThe First-Born of Egypt, Robert BrowningOn A Great Deliverance, James SmethamThe Destruction of Pharaoh, John RuskinThe Flight into Egypt, Francis Sylvester MahoneyAncient Egypt, Gerald MasseyIn Egyptian Thebes, Evelyn DouglasEgyptian Theosophy, Mathilde BlindHermes Trismegistus, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEgypt, Isaac WilliamsTourists, Humor, & Cats!Herodotus in Egypt, Andrew LangA Return to Egypt, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyAlong the Nile, Henry AbbeyWelcome to Egypt, Mathilde BlindEgypt, Isaac McLellanEgypt Unvisited, Alaric Alexander WattsThe Pyramids, Winthrop Mackworth PraedPelters of Pyramids, Richard Hengist HorneThe Secret of the Sphinx, Eugene FieldThe Sphinx, James Whitcomb RileyThe Naughty Little Egyptian, Mary Mapes DodgeTo My Cat, Rosamund Marriott WatsonThe PoetsBibliography