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Ancient Egyptian Poetry

Ancient Egyptian Poetry. The Leiden Hymns (ca. 1238 B.C.) Love Songs (1300-1100 B.C.). Horus, god of the sun, intercedes in human life to give light and hope. How Splendidly You Ferry the Skyways. God, the Master Craftsman. Nefertiti (1370-1330 B.C)

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Ancient Egyptian Poetry

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  1. Ancient Egyptian Poetry The Leiden Hymns (ca. 1238 B.C.) Love Songs (1300-1100 B.C.)

  2. Horus, god of the sun, intercedes in human life to give light and hope. How Splendidly You Ferry the Skyways

  3. God, the Master Craftsman

  4. Nefertiti (1370-1330 B.C) Wife of Akhenaten, and stepmother of Tuhankhamen—icon of ideal beauty. “My love is one and only, without peer…”

  5. Hathor, mother goddess, goddess of love. Each morning she lures the sun, Horus, into the sky. (c. 2700 B.C.) “Love, how I’d like to slip down by the pond…”

  6. Ancient Egyptian wall painting of a couple enjoying the scent of flowers (date uncertain) “Why, just now, must you question your heart?”

  7. …just to sit and chat at her place (about men), /When there, hot on his horses, comes Mehy (oh god, I said to myself, it’s Mehy)… “I was simply off to see Nefrus, my friend…

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

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