Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Africa: Vol. XXIV. 1876–79. | | | | Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia: Nile, the River | | A Sunset on the Nile | | Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884) |
| | | PAST emerald plains and furrowed mountains old, | |
| Whose violet gorges snare the wandering eye, | |
| The pillared palms day’s dying embers hold, | |
| Like shafts of bronze against the crimson sky, | |
| And every cloud mirrors its rosy fold | 5 |
| In tremulous waves which blush and wander by— | |
| We float, and feel the magic penetrate, | |
| Till all our soul is colored by the hues, | |
| Making a heaven of earth, and, satiate | |
| With splendor, we forego the use | 10 |
| Of speech, and reverently wait | |
| While fades the glory with the falling dews, | |
| And darkness seals for memory each gleam, | |
| Happy to know it was not all a dream. | | | | |
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