Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PANNYRA OF THE GOLDEN HEELS, by ALBERT SAMAIN


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PANNYRA OF THE GOLDEN HEELS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the murmurous room a stillness glanced
Last Line: In a divine flash, shows pannyra nude.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers


Through the murmurous room a stillness glanced:
Pannyra of the golden heels stepped forth. She danced.
A veil of many folds concealed her quite.
With a long silver trill the flutes invite
Her first; she flits to the center and salaams,
Then with the slow movement of her moulding arms
Lends a weird rhythm to the stuff that wells
And widens undulant, and hollows, and swells
Till it swirls at the close like a storm in the sky ...
And Pannyra is flower, and flame, and butterfly!
All eyes ecstatic hold; no watchers stir.
And the fury of the dance flares forth in her.
She whirls forever, faster, faster still!
The golden torch-flames wave in the wind's will!
Of a sudden she stops in the center of the hall,
And the spiral, suspended, begins to fall
And, clinging to her firm breasts and her glossy thewed
Thighs, as through a silken water's fall,
In a divine flash, shows Pannyra nude.





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