Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Here you will find the Poem Vale` - Egypt's Might is Tumbled Down of poet Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Vale` - Egypt's Might is Tumbled Down

Egypt's might is tumbled down
Down a-down the deeps of though;
Greece is fallen and Troy town,
Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,
Venice' pride is nought.

But the dreams their children dreamed
Fleeting, unsubstantial, vain,
Shadowy as the shadows seemed,
Airy nothing, as they deemed,
These remain.