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Thy shadowy Idols in the solitudes, Awful Memnonian countenances calm Looking athwart the burning flats, far off Seen by the high-necked camel on the verge Journeying southward?

From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Its stability is equal to St. Paul's, or the Memnonian Temple.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Ah, then my hymn in the ears of the earliest gods shall be chaunted, As the Memnonian form breath'd forth sweet secrets in song.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

Through a certain Bedouin-like conformation,—which, however, is idealized by the lofty, massive forehead, and by the prevailing subtilty of the general expression,—it seems fitted to desert solitudes; and in this respect it is truly Memnonian.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various

A hundred domes and spires, wind sculptured and water sculptured, reached up like Memnon to catch the first light of the sun, and seemed to me to break out into Memnonian music.

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White