- The title-page of the first edition of The Sphinx, with decorations by Charles Ricketts. The Sphinx is a 174-line poem by Oscar Wilde...
- In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks, A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me through the shifting gloom.
- From Collected Poems & Translations by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by Library of America.
- “Dull Sphinx, Jove keep thy five wits! Thy sight is growing blear; Rue, myrrh, and cummin for the Sphinx — Her muddy eyes to clear!”
- TO MARCEL SCHWOB IN FRIENDSHIP AND IN ADMIRATION. THE SPHINX is the copyright of Mr. John Lane, by whose courtesy it is included in this edition. THE SPHINX.
- The Sphinx is drowsy, The wings are furled; Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world.
- Sphinx has occasioned much terror among the vulgar, at times, by the melancholy kind of cry which it utters, and the insignia of death which it wears upon its corslet.'"
- The Sphinx is drowsy, The wings are furled; Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world.
- In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me through the shifting gloom.
- In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me through the shifting gloom.
