# Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

Author: Rosenberg, Isaac, 1890-1918; Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 [Contributor]; Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66889

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poems+by+Isaac+Rosenberg+Rosenberg&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

[_Reads._] To our beloved son, greeting. Add to our thoughts of you, if possible to add, but a little, and you are more than old heroes—not to bemean your genius, who might cry “Was that all!” We pile barriers everywhere: we give you idiots for tools, tree stumps for swords, skin sacks for souls. The sixteenth pyramid remains to be built: we give you the last draft of slaves. Move! Forget not the edict. PHARAOH.

## Chapters

- [SCENE II.: _Evening before Thebes. The Pyramids are being built.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-by-isaac-rosenberg-66889/chapters/2/index.md)
- [SCENE I.: _Outside a college in Thebes. Egyptian students pass by.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-by-isaac-rosenberg-66889/chapters/1/index.md)