Ancient Egyptian Poetry

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Ancient Egyptian Poetry

• The Leiden Hymns (ca. 1238 B.C.)
• Love Songs (1300-1100 B.C.)

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How Splendidly You Ferry the Skyways

• Horus, god of the sun, intercedes in human life
  to give light and hope.

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God, the Master Craftsman
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My love is one and only, without peer

• Nefertiti (1370-1330 B.C)
• Wife of Akhenaten, and stepmother of
  Tuhankhamenicon of ideal beauty.

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Love, how Id like to slip down by the pond

• Hathor, mother goddess, goddess of love. Each
  morning she lures the sun, Horus, into the sky.
  (c. 2700 B.C.)

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Why, just now, must you question your heart?

• Ancient Egyptian wall painting of a couple
  enjoying the scent of flowers (date uncertain)

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I was simply off to see Nefrus, my friend

• just to sit and chat at her place (about men),
  /When there, hot on his horses, comes Mehy (oh
  god, I said to myself, its Mehy)

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• I think Ill go home and lie very still,
  feigning terminal illness. / Then the neighbors
  will troop over and stare, my love, perhaps,
  among them. / How shell smile while the
  specialists snarl in their teeth!she knows
  perfectly well what ails me.