<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536406" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: X</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An instant, just an instant, and no more,<br>And it was gone, and I with eyes unsealed<br>Saw the bald pageant stripped to its thought's core,<br>And naked there to my scared eyes revealed.<br>Upon a throne which filled the upper space<br>Two female monsters sat, the first a girl<br>Marked like a leopard with pied arms and face,<br>And restless eyes aflame and teeth of pearl.<br>Her as we ventured near, I heard awhile<br>Say she was hungry, and a gleam like blood<br>Lighted her lips and died in a fierce smile.<br>A woman's hand behind me in the crowd<br>Clutched at my arm, and through the booth there went<br>A shiver of half fear, half merriment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536406" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: X de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="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 there to my scared eyes revealed. Upon a throne which filled the upper space Two female monsters sat..."></div> </div> </div>

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