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Birds of Passage Songs of the Orient and Occident
byMathilde Blind
London Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
1895Contents.
- Prelude 3
- Songs of the Orient.
- Welcome to Egypt 11
- The Sphinx 12
- Sphinx‐Money 13
- The Tombs of the Kings 14
- Hymn to Horus 26
- Nuit 29
- Egyptian Theosophy 31
- The Moon of Ramadân 34
- The Beautiful Beeshareen Boy 40
- The Dying Dragoman 48
- A Fantasy 57
- The Desert 61
- Scarabæus Sisyphus 66
- The Colossi of the Plain 67
- Mourning Women 68
- The Sâkiyeh 70
- Internal Firesides 71
- On Reading the “Rubáiyát” of Omar Khayyám in a Kentish Rose Garden 72
- Songs of the Occident.
- Shakespeare Sonnets.
- Miscellaneous Pieces.
- Notes 143
