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Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley


To the Nile


Month after month the gathered rains descend
Drenching yon secret Aethiopian dells,
And from the desert's ice-girt pinnacles
Where Frost and Heat in strange embraces blend
On Atlas, fields of moist snow half depend. 
Girt there with blasts and meteors Tempest dwells
By Nile's aereal urn, with rapid spells
Urging those waters to their mighty end.
O'er Egypt's land of Memory floods are level
And they are thine, O Nile—and well thou knowest 
That soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil
And fruits and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.
Beware, O Man—for knowledge must to thee,
Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.

1818

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poem Themes: Nile, Rivers

Percy Bysshe Shelley's other poems:
  1. From the Arabic, an Imitation
  2. The Spectral Horseman
  3. Letter To Maria Gisborne
  4. Homer's Hymn to Minerva
  5. Matilda Gathering Flowers


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • John Keats To the Nile ("Son of the old Moon-mountains African!")

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