Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
I linger on the threshold of my youth.
If you could see me now as then I was,
A fair--faced frightened boy with eyes of truth
Scared at the world yet angry at its laws,
Plotting all plots, a blushing Cataline
Betrayed by his own cheeks, a misanthrope
In love with all things human and divine,
The very fool of fortune and high hope,
You would deny you knew me. Oh, the days
Of our absurd first manhood, rich in force,
Rich in desire of happiness and praise
Yet impotent in its heroic course,
And all for lack of that one worthless thing,
Knowledge of life and love and suffering!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABACDEDEFGFGHH |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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