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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-05-14 04:22 pm

Potential Titles: Emperor/Empress

More queenly than all empresses - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

An empress, in her blazonry of beauty - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

An emperor of element - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"

In an emperor's real clothes - Lucie Brock-Broido "Almost a Conjuror"

Emperor of this red domain - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

For these are the emperors of spring - John Drinkwater "With Daffodils"

Where care sits emperor of the mind - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

Small emperors of patience - Vievee Francis "The Scale of Empire"

Empress of priests' decisions - Ellen Glasgow "Mary"

With an emperor's skull for a drinking-cup - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

The empress of three colors - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Dark Emperor of hooked face and hungry eye - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"


Empire/Imperial.


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