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DECOR DE THEATRE: 2. THE PRIMROSE DANCE: TIVOLI; TO MINNIE CUNNINGHAM by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

Poet Analysis

First Line: SKIRTS LIKE THE AMBER PETALS OF A FLOWER
Last Line: SHE DANCES AT THE TIVOLI.
Subject(s): DANCING & DANCERS;
Skirts like the amber petals of a flower,
A primrose dancing for delight
In some enchantment of a bower
That rose to wizard music in the night;

A rhythmic flower whose petals pirouette
In delicate circles, fain to follow
The vague aerial minuet,
The mazy dancing of the swallow;

A flower's caprice, a bird's command
Of all the airy ways that lie
In light along the wonder-land,
The wonder-haunted loneliness of sky:

So, in the smoke-polluted place,
Where bird or flower might never be,
With glimmering feet, with flower-like face,
She dances at the Tivoli.



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