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Past the sceptre of Uriel - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Sceptred Gorgon of the Isles - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

Whose dead sceptre conquers time - Craven Langstroth Betts "In Memorium"

With iron sceptre rules the year - Patrick Bronte "Winter-Night Meditations"

Dignity is my scepter - Ana Castillo "These Times"

The conqueror's sceptre broke - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

tiara of sunbeads, scepter of starlight - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

With joy their sceptres yield - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Your scepter reaches heaven - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 37. E-Ablua, the Temple of Nanna in Urum" transl. by Sophus Helle

Perching on the sceptred hand - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

The sceptre of the concave hold - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Lay down this weight of sceptred misery - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Grasp the fallen sceptre of the day - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

Diamond sceptre and golden throne - Denis Florence MacCarthy "A Lament"

Offered their sceptres to his hand - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Hymn Written for a Sunday School"

The cold sceptre of despair - L.J. Pierson "Woman's Dower"

Sceptred hands of starred humility - Isaac Rosenberg "On a Lady Singing"

That Chance with brazen sceptre rules him not - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Wields the sceptre of a vast dominion - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

To snatch the sceptre and to bind the yoke - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

Till heaven yield her sceptre - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"


Sister of ebon-scepter'd Hecate - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"


The frozen sorrows of unsceptred days - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Hurled unsceptred to my glory - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"


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