Here stands a broken-sceptred statue turning its royal back on a ragged vender of toasted garbanzos.
Thou hadst thy triumphs then Purpling the street, Leaders and sceptred men Bow'd at thy feet.
Enough for me; with joy I see The different doom our Fates assign: Be thine Despair and sceptred Care; To triumph and to die are mine.
Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feathered king With ruffled plumes and flagging wing; Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak and lightnings of his eye.
High-throned, and feasting, there thou shalt behold The sceptred rulers.
A pledge the sceptred power of Sidon gave, When to his realm I plough'd the orient wave.
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
To whom, with aspect mild, the guest divine: "Oh true descendant of a sceptred line!
The sceptred wretch then from that solitude I drew, and, of his change compassionate, With words of sadness soothed his rugged mood.
Hath then the iron-sceptred Skeleton, Whose reign is in the tainted sepulchres, 10 To the hell dogs that couch beneath his throne Cast that fair prey?
Without venturing to invoke the sceptred sovereigns of literature, or to call up the shades of the prophets and sibyls of elder time, yet at midnight what a circle might come forth and visit the library!
He is one of those "dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns.
In his palace-halls Amidst them sits Latinus, first in years, And first in sceptred state, but filled with anxious fears.
But mercy is above this sceptred sway-- It is enthron'd in the hearts of kings.
For sceptred Cynics Earth were far too wide a den.
To the noble youths I give this commandment; but ye others, sceptred kings, come to my fair dwelling, that we may entertain the stranger in the halls, and let no man make excuse.
He spake and led the way, and the sceptredkings accompanied him, while the henchmen went for the divine minstrel.
Aias our lord hath now Cleared his wrath-burdened brow Long our despair, Ceased from his angry feud And with mild heart renewed Peace and goodwill to the high-sceptred pair.
My sons have chosen before their father's life A lordly throne andsceptred sovereignty.
Footnote xxv: 'And Harry Monmouth, till the scenes require, Resigns heroics to his sceptred Sire.
Footnote xxvi: 'To "hollaing Hotspur" and thesceptred sire.
Unsanctified by thy command, Unowned by thee, the sceptred hand The trembling slave may bind; But loose from nature's moral ties, The oath by force imposed belies The unassenting mind.
I have been Under that iron-sceptred queen, Had not Rebecca set me free.
All these are maritime, and on the shore 365 They stand of Pylus, by a race possess'd Most rich in flocks and herds, who tribute large And gifts presenting to thy sceptred hand, Shall hold thee high in honor as a God.
And priests, or history much deceives, Turn'd aide-de-camps to sceptred thieves.
With sceptred pride, and brow of awe Oppression gave the world her law, And man, who should such law disdain, Resign'd to her malignant reign.
Can hope to rival such as you, Who seized from kings their sceptred pride, And turned the lightning's darts aside!
Uprose the sceptred monarchs, and obey'd Their leader's call, and round them throng'd the crowd.
Of the whole world's good wishes with him goes; Blessings and prayers in nobler retinue Than sceptred king or laurelled conqueror knows, Follow this wondrous Potentate.
Enough for me: with joy I see The different doom our fates assign: Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.
The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
The hasty multitude Admiring entered, and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was known In heaven by many a towered structure high, Where sceptred angels held their residence, And sat as princes.
Beneath that sceptred pall is the dust of a great Empire, founded and ruled by Louis Napoleon; if not the dust of the Emperor also, it is because he was willing to sacrifice others rather than himself.
The poet says:-- “Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by.
Not yet are fixed the prison bars; The hidden light the spirit owns If blown to flame would dim the stars And they who rule them from their thrones: And the proud sceptred spirits thence Would bow to pay us reverence.
By the hand of a child I am led to the throne of the King For a touch that now fevers me not is forgotten and far, And his infinite sceptred hands that sway us can bring Me in dreams from the laugh of a child to the song of a star.
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