Stiller than chiselled marble, standing there;

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,

And most divinely fair.

...

I turning saw, throned on a flowery rise,

One sitting on a crimson scarf unrolled;

A queen, with swarthy cheeks and bold black eyes,

Brow-bound with burning gold....

“I died a Queen. The Roman soldier found

Me lying dead, my crown about my brows,