Methought upon the tomb-encumbered shore
I stood of Egypt's lone monarchal stream,
And saw immortal Memnon, throned supreme
In gloom as of that Memphian night of yore:
Fold upon fold purpureal he wore,
Beneath the star-borne canopy extreme-
Carven of silence and colossal dream,
Where waters flowed like sleep forevermore.
Lo, in the darkness, thick with dust of years,
How many a ghostly god around his throne,
With thronging wings that were forgotten Fames,
Stood, ere the dawn restore to ancient ears
The long-withholden thunder of their names,
And music stilled to monumental stone.
Memnon At Midnight
Clark Ashton Smith
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Poem topics: dream, god, music, night, silence, sleep, star, shore, long, supreme, ancient, extreme, thunder, dust, beneath, restore, stone, stream, dawn, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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