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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When I hear laughter from a tavern door
Last Line: And lived wit esther the world's gods among.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: When I hear laughter from a tavern door
Last Line: And lived wit esther the world's gods among.
Subject(s): Memory
When I hear laughter from a tavern door,
When I see crowds agape and in the rain
Watching on tiptoe and with stifled roar
To see a rocket fired or a bull slain,
When misers handle gold, when orators
Touch strong men's hearts with glory till they weep,
When cities deck their streets for barren wars
Which have laid waste their youth, and when I keep
Calmly the count of my own life and see
On what poor stuff my manhood's dreams were fed
Till I too learned what dole of vanity
Will serve a human soul for daily bread,
-- Then I remember that I once was young
And lived wit Esther the world's gods among.
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