<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536424" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XVIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, poor Queen of Beauty! In my heart<br>I could weep for you and your sad graceless doom.<br>You stand at my life's threshold in the part<br>Of king's chief jester in the ante--room,<br>And none more near the throne. You made us sport<br>According to your folly, and passed on,<br>And now you live with pension in Love's Court,<br>And privilege to jest and wear the crown.<br>Yes, I could weep for you. Your part it was<br>To strike the cymbals on a night sublime<br>For Love's first bridal dance. Alas, alas!<br>Time, the avenger of our manhood's prime,<br>Is gathering all life courtiers to his cell,<br>And you among the rest. So fare you well.</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=536424" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XVIII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="Alas, poor Queen of Beauty! In my heart I could weep for you and your sad graceless doom. You stand at my life's threshold in the part Of king's chief jester in the ante--room, And none more near the throne. You made us sport According to your fol..."></div> </div> </div>

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