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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A DANCER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intoxicatingly / her eyes across the Last Line: Her eyes that gleam for me! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers | |||
Intoxicatingly Her eyes across the footlights gleam, (The wine of love, the wine of dream) Her eyes, that gleam for me! The eyes of all that see Draw to her glances, stealing fire From her desire that leaps to my desire; Her eyes that gleam for me! Subtly, deliciously, A quickening fire within me, beat The rhythms of her poising feet; Her feet that poise to me! Her body's melody, In silent waves of wandering sound, Thrills to the sense of all around, Yet thrills alone for me! And O, intoxicatingly, When, at the magic moment's close, She dies into the rapture of repose, Her eyes that gleam for me! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FAMED DANCER DIES OF PHOSPHORUS POISONING by RICHARD HOWARD ROSE AND MURRAY by CONRAD AIKEN A DANCER'S LIFE by DONALD JUSTICE DANCING WITH THE DOG by SUSAN KENNEDY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS THE CHILDREN DANCING by LAURENCE BINYON NERVES by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS |
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