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# The Concubine
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-concubine/
- Published: 2021-07-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Who doesn't like Queen Esther? I doubt many would best her Beguiling bad old Xerxes (Achashverosh in verses) saving the people of the Book from a corrupt and dangerous crook
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Who doesn't like Queen Esther?  
I doubt many would best her  
Beguiling bad old Xerxes  
(Achashverosh in verses)  
saving the people of the Book  
from a corrupt and dangerous crook

some reexamine the old story  
finding some parts of it too gory  
applying modern morals  
to old historic quarrels

what fools they be  
to live, to thrive!  
the moral is  
the Book's alive!

be drunk and merry on her day  
(that's if the Bible has its way)  
and don't forget, for her parade  
it's costumes and a masquerade!

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**Author notes:** image from the NY Times https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784680-Favorite-Book-or-Character-of-the-Bible