y separately published work icon Sestrina: A Lyrical Drama of the Pagan South Seas single work   poetry   "Sestrina! child of grief, arise from night -"
Issue Details: First known date: 1931... 1931 Sestrina: A Lyrical Drama of the Pagan South Seas
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'The tragic life of Sestrina Catholot, daughter of an ex-President of Haiti, stands out not merely through the catastrophic calamity brought about by a Mexican sea-captain's cupidity, but serves as a symbol of the soul's battle against monumental sufferings, and of inherent faith and heroism against conflicting emotions.' - author's foreword.

Notes

  • 'Written from the author's prose romance Sestrina (a novel) published by Messrs Methuen & Coo. Ltd., London, and Messrs George Doran & Company, New York.' - (t.p. verso)
  • Dedication: Dedicated to A. E. S.-M. The sea-bird to the sea - and i to you!
  • Epigraph: Come to me in my dreams, and then I'll hear/ The music of your voice - a stealing stream/ Through some old forest, where, like thirsty deer,/ My thoughts will haunt the banks - and drink the dream.

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y separately published work icon Sestrina: A Romance of the South Seas Arnold Safroni-Middleton , London : Methuen , 1920 Z1353611 1920 single work novel adventure romance 'Recounts the story of Sestrina, the daughter of the President of the Hayti Republic. In the first part her life is linked with a young English musician and the background comprises a revolution and Voodoo abominations; the rites and superstitions are detailed. In the second part the story shifts to a lonely isle of the South seas afflicted with leprosy. Sestrina is sympathetic to an Hawaiian missionary there although she herself becomes a pagan.' - Miller
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    Haiti,
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    Caribbean, Americas,
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