Nile Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Nile


It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream. Leigh Hunt—Sonnet. The Nile.	1
Son of the old moon-mountains African! Stream of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very while A desert, fills our seeing’s inward span. Keats—Sonnet. To the Nile.	2
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. Longfellow—Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. I.	3
The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes the harvest. Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 23.	4
Whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 33.	5
O’er Egypt’s land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where’er thou flowest. Shelley—Sonnet. To the Nile.	6
Mysterious Flood,—that through the silent sands Hast wandered, century on century, Watering the length of great Egyptian lands, Which were not, but for thee. Bayard Taylor—To the Nile.	7