During the 19th century, many of the planet's great writers and poets wandered into the ruins of the ancient world. The American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of them. This poem, entitled The Sphinx and published in 1841, is his poetical impression of the Old Kingdom Egyptian statue, one of the surviving Seven Wonders of the World. Another in a collection of archaeology in poetry. Photo credit Daniel Aniszewski copyright 2005.
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