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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poet's Biography
First Line: The tricks of pleasing thou has aye disdained
Last Line: The guest all dimly feel, but few do know.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers
First Line: The tricks of pleasing thou has aye disdained
Last Line: The guest all dimly feel, but few do know.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers
The tricks of pleasing thou has aye disdained:
Thy words are plain, and simple all thy ways:
Yet throngs, admiring, tremble 'neath thy gaze.
And in thy queenly presence stand enchained.
Amid the social babble unconstrained
I heard men speak of women words of praise
And with a smile each turned some honeyed phrase.
Thou cam'st, -- and lo! a sacred silence reigned.
Thus when the dancers with each other vie.
And through the merry mazes whirling go,
Abruptly all is hushed; they wonder why,
And no one can the subtle reason show.
The poet speaks: "There glides an angel by!"
The guest all dimly feel, but few do know.
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