Fallen Majesty
Fallen Majesty - meaning Summary
Memory of Faded Grandeur
The speaker reflects on a once-famous figure whose presence once awed crowds but has now passed into memory. As the lone witness — compared to a solitary courtier — the narrator preserves what remains: physical traces and the joyful heart that once animated her. The poem laments how public attention fades and anticipates future passersby who will unknowingly traverse the place where that luminous presence once moved.
Read Complete AnalysesAlthough crowds gathered once if she but showed her face, And even old men's eyes grew dim, this hand alone, Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place Babbling of fallen majesty, records what's gone. These lineaments, a heart that laughter has made sweet, These, these remain, but I record what's gone. A crowd Will gather, and not know it walks the very street Whereon a thing once walked that seemed a burning cloud.
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