- “That holy dream—that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam, A lonely spirit guiding.” – Lord Byron, “The Bride of Abydos” (1813)
- “From crag to crag the signal sped: Now waved aloft, now hid the fire; On one bleak rock the sentinel stood, And blew the Warriors’ gathering call.” – Sir Walter Scott, “The Lady of the Lake” (1810)
- “The saffron tinge that lightly streaks the clouds, And stains the sands upon Jordan’s shore.” – Percy Shelley, “Queen Mab” (1813)
- “On Jordan’s banks the Arabs’ camels stray.” – John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (1819)
- “Swift Jordan rolled between, Lost Eden’s [Paradise’s] distant scene.” – John Milton, “Paradise Lost” (1667)
- “One foot in Eden still, I stand, and look across the other land.” – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Bury Me in a Free Land” (1858)
- “The Jordan journeyed, and already here [Sheba] rests.” – Dante Alighieri, “The Divine Comedy” (1320)
- “Lo, Moab’s barren shore along, Each tall palm blazes red with joyful fire. As Sodom and as Gomorrah’s pride, The Jordan that doth flow about thy way. Till robed in rich leaf black banana trees Bejewelled with pomegranate, wreathe thee Fair, proud Petra, fair forever, hail!” – Claude McKay, “The Black City” (1928)
- “The drowsy murmur of the sliding stream, the moaning wind in softest lullabies passing by, the soaring hopes that beckon us along Mount Nebo’s verdant range, the desperate prayers whispered within the confines of Petra’s hidden chambers.” – Kahlil Gibran, “The Prophet” (1923)
- “Beneath its liquid weight, gray Jordan, toil Complete; yon gushing fountains ere they quit Their sources shall unite their streams.” – John Banister Tabb, “The Jordan” (1894)
WANDERLIST: Ten great travel quotes about Jordan
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