Diademmed

Childhood’s sweet fields renewed, / With daisies and with king-cups gay begemmed, / I saw: then Lindsey’s sweetest sanctitude / Of Druid woods arose, where, giant-stemmed, / Upreared old trees anew with verdure diademmed.

That fair young maiden diademmed with light / Made her dear mother’s fame more sparkling bright, / As the blue offspring of the Turquoise Hills / The parent Mount with richer glory fills, / When the Cloud’s voice has caused the gem to spring, / Responsive to its gentle thundering.

I will raise up my head of a night-time against the sky, and the old, old unbought stars shall twinkle through my hair, and we shall not envy any of the diademmed queens of the world.

And those salt tears your lashes gemmed / Were but the breath of flame distilled; / Flame white and pure, and diademmed / With suffering,—pain with joy fulfilled.

Over all, from the centre of the sideboard, a bust of the old Queen, diademmed and Garter-ribboned, threw a glance of stony approbation.

Although rifled from her temple, the figure of a cow, then worshiped as the goddess of the Egyptians, still stands unmarred and diademmed in the museum at Cairo, showing the reverence of the queen for her divinity.

But he so beautiful and diademmed, his long Italian hands so wrung with rain I find his ache exists beyond my rim, then almost weep to see a broken man had satisfied my whim.