<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536436" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXXII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had stopped to read a handbill of the play,<br>Caught by the lettering. Thus it was I read,<br>``Programme of this night's pieces, Saturday<br>The twentieth of October, `X. Y. Z.,'<br>A piece in one act, and `Les Bergers Fous,'<br>These to be followed by the well--known `drame'<br>Of `Manon Lescaut,' here brought out anew<br>For the first time at Lyons.'' And a name<br>Followed in giant type of one who then<br>Illustrious stood in all the world of folly,<br>The most sublime Comedian known to men,<br>``Mademoiselle Esther, Muse of Melancholy.''<br>She in her part of Manon, so 'twas writ,<br>Three nights would play in honour infinite.</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=536436" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXXII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="I had stopped to read a handbill of the play, Caught by the lettering. Thus it was I read, ``Programme of this night's pieces, Saturday The twentieth of October, `X. Y. Z.,' A piece in one act, and `Les Bergers Fous,' These to be followed by the w..."></div> </div> </div>

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