Like Memnon breathing songs across the desert sands

Rom Selected poems from Michelangelo Buonarroti, with translations from various sources edited by Edna D. Cheney

So Stood This Angel O

by C.P.C. Ranch

So stood this Angel o 

Four hundred years ago; 

So grandly still he stands 

Mid lesser worlds of Art, 

Colossal and apart, 

Like Memnon breathing songs across the desert sands.