“Seekest thou a place at my right hand? Nay, I give thee a more wondrous dignity. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne."”

Epistle to Muhammad Sháh

The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land

The Tenth Revelation, Chapter 24

The Gentle Falcon (1957)
Context: I was a lonely child though there were children in plenty on our land. But my nurse forbade me to play with them. She guarded my dignity; more than my mother, indeed, who being so great a lady took dignity for granted.
But in any case there was little time for them to play. There was work for even the smallest upon our land; some of our peasants had run away, tempted by ever-rising wages. Wages fixed by law were certainly low; but, like many another ruined in the French wars, we had no money to pay a penny more than the law laid down. All over the country men were running away from their masters and the land lost as many laborers as by the Black Death itself. <!-- p. 14

The Fly, st. 1–3
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

&quot; God-Forgotten http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/16398&quot;, lines 4-8, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)

"The Rainbow".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair,
Forms turn to musick, clouds to smiles and air;
Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours
Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers.
Bright pledge of peace and sun-shine! the sure tye
Of thy Lord's hand, the object of his eye.
When I behold thee, though my light be dim,
Distant, and low, I can in thine see Him
Who looks upon thee from his glorious throne,
And mindes the covenant 'twixt all and One.

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 31.