# Estee — Poetry character guide

> Estee in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Your, your

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

The elusive 'you' who promised a picture and delivered nothing, leaving the poet to dun her in rhyme and threaten appeals to Apollo.

## In the story

### [A Morning Fancy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/a-morning-fancy)

The woman who brings chocolate to the narrator upon his waking, to whom he makes a puzzling remark.

### [A Learner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/a-learner)

Addressed as 'Dear' and 'pretty native,' the beloved is the object of the speaker's affectionate plea for patience.

### [Another Way](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/another-way)

The woman who lays a rose on the narrator's breast and speaks of his love.

### [To One Across the Way](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/to-one-across-the-way)

The unnamed beloved at the window, whose beauty and goodness inspire the narrator's passion and doubt.

### [To Maude](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/to-maude)

Addressed as 'Maude' in the poem; the beloved whose spirit race is described as 'sweet seraphim of thought'.

### [The Scurril Press](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/the-scurril-press)

Addressed as 'Mary' and 'wife'; she sleeps through most of the tirade and finally wakes to read the offending article.

### [Presentiment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/presentiment)

The woman walking with the speaker, described with saintly grace and resplendent face.

### [A Study in Gray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/a-study-in-gray)

The restaurant maid with gray hair, once golden, who served the narrator in earlier years.

### [A Bit of Science](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/a-bit-of-science)

The lady whose blue eyes are the subject of the narrator's meditation.

### [Discretion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/discretion)

The female speaker who questions the man's discretion.

### [One Morning](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/one-morning)

The beloved, addressed as 'my love' and 'lady,' whose arrival is awaited.

### [Again](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/again)

The woman the narrator meets again; she rebuffs him with a calm, indifferent remark about her well-being.

### [Oneiromancy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/oneiromancy)

The narrator's love, seen concealing a letter in her glove upon his waking.

### [A Jack-at-All-Views](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/a-jack-at-all-views)

Addressed directly by the narrator; recalled as a former railroad opponent who later served Stanford.

### [A “Mass” Meeting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/a-mass-meeting)

Bends his grizzled head among the celebrants.

### [Three Candidates for Senator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/three-candidates-for-senator)

Depicted as riding McClure in the senatorial race, embodying the absurdity of the contest.

### [On Stone: Some Ante-Mortem Epitaphs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/on-stone-some-ante-mortem-epitaphs)

Epitaph XLII tells of Estee shaking a basket from which Felton fell, and his death while squealing in Felton's growing shadow.

### [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/xlii)

Shakes a basket, causing Felton to fall out; dies trying to put him back.

### [Serenade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/serenade)

The beloved maiden addressed as 'maiden,' 'dear,' 'duck,' and 'sweet,' who is being serenaded.

### [Aspirants Three](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/aspirants-three)

A rival politician who rises from his tomb to fight De Young, eventually accepting the Interior portfolio, but remains unable to escape his corrupt nature.

## Links

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