<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536423" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XVII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I touched that knee. She did not show surprise,<br>And the earth had not opened at our feet.<br>She did not even laugh. Her foolish eyes<br>Twinkled a moment in her cheeks, then set<br>Like fog--bound stars for ever from my sight.<br>And at a signal from the little woman,<br>Who clung to me still, a chorus left and right<br>Of laughter rose Homeric and inhuman,<br>Drowning all further sense in one wild roar.<br>I heard the spotted girl with leopard lips<br>Complain that she was hungry as before,<br>And all the world was merged in an eclipse,<br>Darkening the air around and overhead,<br>And then I broke away and turned and fled.</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=536423" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XVII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="I touched that knee. She did not show surprise, And the earth had not opened at our feet. She did not even laugh. Her foolish eyes Twinkled a moment in her cheeks, then set Like fog--bound stars for ever from my sight. And at a signal from the lit..."></div> </div> </div>

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