<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536408" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was a little woman dressed in black,<br>Who stood on tiptoe with a childish air,<br>Her face and figure hidden in a sacque,<br>All but her eyes and forehead and dark hair.<br>Her brow was pale, but it was lit with light,<br>And mirth flashed out of it, it seemed in rays.<br>A childish face, but wise with woman's wit,<br>And something, too, pathetic in its gaze.<br>In the bare dusk of that unseemly place<br>I noted all, and this besides, a scar<br>Which on her cheek had left a paler trace.<br>It seemed to tell its tale of love and war.<br>That little scar! Doubt whispered of this one,<br>Boy as I was, she had not lived a nun.</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=536408" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="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 forehead and dark hair. Her brow was pale, but it was lit with light, And mirth flashed out of it, it se..."></div> </div> </div>

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