"Sceptreless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mocking the desolation round about, Blotting with his effacing fingers out The inscription, razing off its hero's name— And lo! the ancient mistress of the globe, With clasped hands, a statue of despair, Sits abject at his feet, in fetters bound— A thousand rents in her imperial robe, Swordless and sceptreless, her golden hair Dishevelled in the dust, for ages gathering ...
— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various
... is rolled: When, thro' bare boughs, the tale of death is told By breezes sighing, "Summer days are o'er"; When all the days we loved — the days of yore — Lie in their vaults, dead Kings who ruled of old — Unrobed and sceptreless, uncrowned with gold, Conquered, and to be crowned, ...
— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens |
