Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UPON HIS MISTRESS DANCING, by JAMES SHIRLEY


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First Line: I stood and saw my mistress dance
Last Line: So nimbly with a marble heart.
Variant Title(s): On Her Dancing
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers


I STOOD and saw my Mistress dance,
Silent, and with so fixed an eye,
Some might suppose me in a trance:
But being asked why,
By one that knew I was in love,
I could not but impart
My wonder, to behold her move
So nimbly with a marble heart.





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