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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, by MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER
First Line: The right divine! What king that hath it not?
Last Line: Such right divine as this hath every king.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
First Line: The right divine! What king that hath it not?
Last Line: Such right divine as this hath every king.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
THE right divine! What king that hath it not?
The right to look through all his realm and see
What fever courses in the people's veins,
And lay thereon the balm of kingly hands;
To turn aside the treasonable blade,
And make a friend of him who carries it;
To bind up public wounds; to put away
The screens wherewith men hide accusing truth,
And speak grave words when these befit the time;
To sow the land so full of happiness,
Of peace and justice, love and courtesy,
That ships bound seaward unto fabled shores
Shall never tempt his people otherwhere:
Such right divine as this hath every king.
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