Heaven's ebon vault

Studded with stars unutterably bright,

Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,

Seems like a canopy which love has spread

To curtain her sleeping world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Queen Mab. iv.

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs,

That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:

Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,

"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

Robert Burns (1759-1796): The Cotter's Saturday Night.

To the glory that was Greece

And the grandeur that was Rome.

Edgar A Poe (1811-1849): To Helen.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,

So near is God to man,

When Duty whispers low, Thou must,

The youth replies, I can!

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Voluntaries.

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile

The short and simple annals of the poor.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 8.