| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Nubia | | By Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| | | A LAND of Dreams and Sleep—a poppied land! | |
| With skies of endless calm above her head, | |
| The drowsy warmth of summer noonday shed | |
| Upon her hills, and silence stern and grand | |
| Throughout her Desert’s temple-burying sand. | 5 |
| Before her threshold, in their ancient place, | |
| With closèd lips, and fixed, majestic face, | |
| Noteless of Time, her dumb colossi stand. | |
| O, pass them not with light, irreverent tread; | |
| Respect the dream that builds her fallen throne, | 10 |
| And soothes her to oblivion of her woes. | |
| Hush! for she does but sleep; she is not dead: | |
| Action and Toil have made the world their own, | |
| But she has built an altar to Repose. | | | | |
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