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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A FEMALE ROPE-DANCER, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: Whilst in her prime and bloom of years
Last Line: "we know not which we admire most, / the dancer, or the dance"
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;labor & Laborers
First Line: Whilst in her prime and bloom of years
Last Line: "we know not which we admire most, / the dancer, or the dance"
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;labor & Laborers
WHILST in her prime and bloom of years,
Fair Celia trips the rope,
Alternately she moves our fears,
Alternately our hope.
But when she sinks, or rises higher,
Or graceful does advance,
We know not which we most admire,
The dancer, or the dance.
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