From “Songs of Experience” (1794) , this poem is one of William Blake’s most haunting reflections on human anger, repression, and moral tolerance I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water’d it in fears, Night and morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil’d the pole; In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree. Background of the Poet William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, and visionary thinker. Living during the Romantic era, he rejected the industrial age’s mechanical view of life and believed in the spiritual and emotional side of humanity. His works often explore innocence, experience, good, evil, and the in...

  There is something quietly eternal about Egypt  as a land where time folds into golden dust, where pyramids watch over the desert like patient sentinels, and where the Nile flows as it has for thousands of years, unhurried, unchanged, and unbroken. Whenever I think of Egypt, I don’t see just history books or grand monuments; I feel a deep stillness, the kind that belongs to civilisations that once listened to the stars. A Brief Timeline of Egypt’s Story c. 3100 BCE: Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under King Narmer . c. 2600–2500 BCE: The Old Kingdom,  the age of pyramid-building. c. 1500–1000 BCE: The New Kingdom  pharaohs like Ramses II and Tutankhamun rule Egypt. 332 BCE: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt and founds Alexandria . 30 BCE: Cleopatra VII , the last pharaoh, dies. Egypt becomes part of the Roman Empire. Afterwards: Egypt sees the rise of Christianity , the arrival of Islam , and the lasting whisper of its an...