Nile

thumb|right|It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream. thumb|Peder Mørk Mønsted, "By Nile" (1893) The Nile is a major north-flowing river in North Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile. The latter is the source of most of the water and fertile soil. The former is the longer. The White Nile rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source being as-yet undetermined, and located in either Rwanda or Burundi. It flows north through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda, and southern Sudan. The Blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and flows into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Quotes The Nile, forever new and old,Among the living and the dead,Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part I. The higher Nilus swells,The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsmanUpon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,And shortly comes the harvest. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 7, line 23. Whose tongueOutvenoms all the worms of Nile. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 4, line 33. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 559. It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream. Leigh Hunt, Sonnet, The Nile. Son of the old moon-mountains African! Stream of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very whileA desert, fills our seeing's inward span. John Keats, Sonnet, The Nile. O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowestThe soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sonnet, To the Nile. Mysterious Flood,—that through the silent sands Hast wandered, century on century,Watering the length of great Egyptian lands, Which were not, but for thee. Bayard Taylor, To the Nile. External links Category:Geography of Egypt Category:Rivers of Africa