...Petrarch loved, — only less cold, More truly virtuous, and of gladdening powers. A THOUGHT OF THE NILE. IT flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like...pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young earth, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught...

...Petrarch loved, — only less cold, More truly virtuous, and of gladdening powers. A THOUGHT OF THE NILE. IT flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like...pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young earth, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught...

...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...

...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...

...sonnets, especially that which he wrote on the Nile in rivalry with Shelley and Keats, are very good. It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like...pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young earth, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught...

...thoughtful ears this natural song — In doors and out, summer and winter, Mirth. A THOUGHT OF THE NILE. IT flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like...pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young earth, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught...

...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...

...White, before thy presence dread Wakes to life the slumbering dead. CHAPTER XVIII. YALLEY OF THE NILE. It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like...the shepherd bands, That roamed through the young earth ; — the flag extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing Queen that caught...

...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 cxu Of high Sesostris, and that Southern beam. The laughing queen that caught the world's sreat lr....

...slumbering dead. CHAPTER XVIII. VALLEY OF THE 1T1LI. It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sand), Like some grave, mighty thought, threading a dream...the shepherd bands, That roamed through the young earth ; — the flag extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing Queen that caught...