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Esther
Shon White
I’m trying…
Trying my best to get her out of my mind
But after I saw her on the screen that one time
It was a wrap for me -

All of a sudden
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: I
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
When is life other than a tragedy,
Whether it is played in tears from the first scene,
In sable robes and grief's mute pageantry,
For loves that died...
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Esther Mae
Dena Kessler
Esther Mae Casey lived by the...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: II
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Yes, who shall tell the value of our tears,
Whether we wept aright or idly grieved?
There is a tragedy in unloved years,
And in those passionate...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: III
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
A little honey! Ay, a little sweet,
A little pleasure when the years were young,
A joyous measure trod by dancing feet,
A tale of folly told by a...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: IV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
And thus it is. The tale I have to tell
Is such another. He who reads shall find
That which he brings to it of Heaven or Hell
For his best recompense...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: IX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I stopped, I listened, and I entered in,
With half--a--dozen more, that sight to see.
``The Booth of Beauty,'' 'twas a name of sin
Which seemed to...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
When I hear laughter from a tavern door,
When I see crowds agape and in the rain
Watching on tiptoe and with stifled roar
To see a rocket fired or a...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I lived with Esther, not for many days,
If days be counted by the fall of night
And the sun's rising, yet through years of praise,
If truth be...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
For Esther was a woman most complete
In all her ways of...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I must not speak of it. Even yet my heart
Is but a feeble thing to fret and cry,
And it might chance to wake and with a start,
When nights were still...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
In Esther's world of wonder and renown,
She, glorious star, each night immortally
Playing her Manons to the listening...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Who has not wept with Manon? Of all tales
That thrill youth's fancy or to tears or mirth
None other is there where such grief prevails,
Such...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LVII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
This was my term of glory. All who know
Something of life will guess untold the end.
In love, one ever kisses for his woe,
One lends his cheek, alas!...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LVIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
And Esther had no soul which Heaven or Hell
Could touch by joy or soften by the...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: V
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I had been an hour at Lyons. My breath comes
Fast when I think of it. An hour, no more,
I trod those streets and listened to the drums,
The mirth,...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: VI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
The Lyons fair! In truth it was a Heaven
For idlers' eyes, a feast of curious things,
Swings, roundabouts, and shows, the Champions Seven,
Dramas of...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: VII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I had made my round, as yet with little gain
Of undiscovered good in that gay place.
I had sought my share of pleasure, but in vain.
Laughter was not...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: VIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
It was a booth no larger than the rest,
No loftier fashioned and no more sublime,
As poor a shrine as ever youth possessed
In which to worship truth...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: X
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
An instant, just an instant, and no more,
And it was gone, and I with eyes unsealed
Saw the bald pageant stripped to its thought's core,
And naked...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Beyond her sat a second monster. She
In shape and sense was undisguisedly real,
An ox--eyed queen of full--fed majesty
And giant height and...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
She was a little woman dressed in black,
Who stood on tiptoe with a childish air,
Her face and figure hidden in a sacque,
All but her eyes and...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XIII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
A second warning, nor unheeded. Yet
The thought appealed to me as no strange thing,
Pure though I was, that love impure had set
Its seal on that fair...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Me, too, she doubtless read. For, with her hand
Raised as for help and pointing to a chair,
She bade me, with a gesture, part command
And part...
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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XIX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I fled the booth with feelings as of Cain,
Yet laughing at my own bewilderment.
My cheeks had blushed till it was physical pain,
And my eyes smarted....
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