Come swiftly to your love;: Love poems of ancient Egypt (Hallmark editions)

by Noel Stock and Ezra Pound

Book Overview

Ancient Egypt is often thought of as a gloomy society obsessed with death. But a collection of papyri, dating to the latter half of the New Kingdom (ca. 1305-1080 B.C.), presents us with delicate love... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875291759
• ISBN13: 9780875291758
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Hallmark
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The more things change...

...the more they stay the same. Boys moping because the girl of their dreams doesn't know they exist, girls positively distraught because their parents don't approve of their one true love... so what makes these poems special (besides their simple beauty)? They were translated directly from 3,000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs! Read these poems, share them with someone special, and I'm sure you'll both agree - as Johnny Cash once said "There's nothing new under the sun".