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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CELIA IN ARDEN, by ELSA PUTNAM POWEL
First Line: Soft the air of summer in a moonlit garden
Last Line: She dances till the summer moon sinks low.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers
First Line: Soft the air of summer in a moonlit garden
Last Line: She dances till the summer moon sinks low.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers
Soft the air of summer in a moonlit garden
Shadows on a lawn as bright as day,
Creeping out on tiptoe, by the wood of Arden,
Celia steals from sleeping house to play.
Unbound tresses shining in the moonbeams' silver,
Flying feet trip lightly o'er the lawn,
Fanned by gentle breezes blowing from the river,
She floats across pale flowers like a fawn.
She glides into a grotto where a fountain glistens,
Shoulders brushed by dewy boughs of trees,
In the midnight stillness there's nobody who listens
Only moss-grown marble Cupid sees.
With free and lovely rhythm she treads the shady hollow.
Then out in dappled moonlight, to and fro,
Her shape is white as wood-nymph, no satyr here to follow.
She dances till the summer moon sinks low.
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