Read full poem →Spite of his haughty mien, and barbarous pride:
What boots the regal circle on his head,
His giant limbs in state unwieldy spread;
Dictionary Entry
Of or relating to royalty.
In a Sentence
“regal authority; the regal title”
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Poetry examples for “regal”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Stern was her front, her cloak[343] on ground did lie.
Her left hand held abroad a regal sceptre,
The Lydian buskin [in] fit paces kept her.
Read full poem →Be heard, of the regal fish;
There like a golden knife
Read full poem →She wove a red cloak
So regal to see,
“She’s made it for a king’s son,”
Read full poem →respondence in French and was familiar with her affairs.
@ She was holding a salon in Holyrood, her then regal
residence, on the night of the murder, the Countess of
Read full poem →Th'Assyrians' king, in peace with foul desire
And filthy lust that stained his regal heart,
In war, that should set princely hearts afire,
Read full poem →They suffered only in the common fate;
But now the sovereign mounts the regal chair,
And mitred seats are full, yet David's bench is bare._--P. 221.
Read full poem →to his posterity? To die with peace at home, and triumph abroad? To be
buried among kings, and with more than regal solemnity? And to leave a
name behind him, not to be extinguished but with the whole world, which
Read full poem →And fixed the fairest gem that decks the imperial crown:
Not faction, when it shook thy regal seat,
Not senates, insolently loud,
Read full poem →A warlike prince ascends the regal state,
A prince long exercised by fate:
