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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DANCING & DANCERS Matches Found: 308 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FANNY ELSSLER, 1840", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the clock has struck, we mean st. Paul's" Last Line: "in mazy beauty only clad, / she moves-we're mad!" Subject(s): "ballet;dancing & Dancers;elssler, Fanny (1810-1884);new York City - 19th Century; A BALLAD OF ST. VITUS, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girls fidget with their fans. Scarce heard Last Line: Prince vitus stalks along broadway! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Dancing & Dancers; Vitrus, Saint (3rd Century) A BUFFALO DANCE AT SANTO DOMINGO, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn came Last Line: Our breast and forehead with the turquoise sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; New Mexico; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A COUNTRY DANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiddle away, old time - / fiddle away, old fellow! Last Line: Fiddle them, dear old fellow! Subject(s): Country Life; Dancing & Dancers; Love A COUNTRY DANCE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He has not woo'd, but he has lost his heart Last Line: Till with the refluent dance she reappears. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers A DANCE AT THE RANCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from every point they gaily come, the bronco's unshod feet" Subject(s): Cowboys;dancing & Dancers;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A DANCE FOR RAIN (AT COCHITI, NEW MEXICO), by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may never see rain, unless you see Last Line: Rain, rain in cochiti! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Cochiti, New Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Rain; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States A DANCER'S LIFE, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lights in the theater fail, the long racks Last Line: Like a small theater, empty, without lights Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers A DREAM DANCE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maeve held a ball on the dun Last Line: My hand in that beautiful hand. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Nightmares A FABLE FOR CRITICS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, sitting one day in a laurel-tree's shade Last Line: I, too, snatched my notes and forthwith disappeared. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers A MERRY HEART: I SING WHILE I WASH THE DISHES, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: Oh, I must dance a whirligig Last Line: For I have seen the gooses green! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Geese; Fairs; Pageants A POLKA LYRIC, by BARCLAY PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Qui nunc dancere vult modo Last Line: Celere -- run away, just in sham. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE TWO CLOWNS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: - synthetic clown-clown, hip hip, whirl! Last Line: That he could not whirl a hurricane. Subject(s): Clowns; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The A SONG, by BRADFORD STEWART Poem Text First Line: The fairy music is silvery sweet Last Line: In the love-lighted eyes of you. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Trumpets A SONG TO THE MASKERS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come down, and dance ye in the toyle Last Line: And whom she touch't, turne sweet. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers AFTER HEARING A WALTZ BY BARTOK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But why did I kill him? Why? Why? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: SHADOWS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows dark'ning our intents Last Line: Our nightly sports and prophecies we end. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Night; Youth; Bedtime AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE DANCE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robin is a lovely lad Last Line: March around and make a stand. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Youth ALLEGRETTO (TO BEATRICE MORTON), by SYLVIA ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: You drape around your willowy body Last Line: Of a soft-throated wind! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love AMERICAN SMOOTH, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 8. THE DANCE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the immortal moment of a passionate dance Last Line: Rapture of intolerable immortality. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love AN IDYLL OF PIPECLAY PONDS, by TOM FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Talk of the beauties of wedded life Last Line: That had its finale at skillicorn's dance. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives APRIL MIDNIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Side by side through the streets at midnight Last Line: In the miraculous april weather. Subject(s): April; Dancing & Dancers AT A COWBOY DANCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Git yer little sage hens ready Last Line: Keno! Promenade to seats. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States AT THE JUNIOR PROMENADE, by CAREY CULBERTSON Poem Text First Line: The stars were out and the moon was bright Last Line: At the junior promenade. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; High School Students AUF WIEDERSEHEN, by HARRY SAFFORD CANDEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the brown of her eyes Last Line: "the waltz is our last, ""auf wiedersehen!" Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love AUNTIE JO, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: My auntie jo / makes a mouth like an 'o' Last Line: My auntie will shoot the whole nickel. Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing & Dancers BACCANTE, by ALICE LOUISE JONES Poem Text First Line: I bathe in the lush of the moon Last Line: I whirl and am gone. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BAILANDO, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bailando / I will remember you dancing Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BALLAD OF THE TEN CASINO DANCERS, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten dancers glide Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BARN DANCE, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had been happy thinking she might love him Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BELLY DANCER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can these movements which move themselves Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dancing & Dancers; Desire; Women BLUE JUNIATA, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farmhouses curl like horns of plenty, hide Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BOY AND MOM AT THE NUTCRACKER BALLET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no talking in this movie Last Line: Do you have any more pistachios in your purse? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Play; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life BREAKDANCING, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive the boy on the screen is doing it Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Theology; Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY DANCE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That hobnailed goblin, the bobtailed hob Last Line: Come away! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BUCOLIC COMEDY: PAVANE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annunciata stands Last Line: Reached the beggar's daughter. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Dancing & Dancers BURLESQUE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The footlights glint, the house is set Last Line: They have played plays in heaven?' Subject(s): Bands; Burlesque; Criticism & Critics; Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights; Singing & Singers; Orchestras; Striptease CAMARGO, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carved marble face, enraptured secret smile Last Line: Knowing the soul is born in sensual strife. Subject(s): Ballet; Camargo, Marie Anne De (1710-70); Dancing & Dancers; Statues CANTHARA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old black-man showed me Last Line: His old emotion. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust CAULD KAIL IN ABERDEEN, by ALEXANDER GORDON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: There's cauld kail in aberdeen Last Line: To dance the reel o' bogie. Alternate Author Name(s): Gordon, 4th Duke Of Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers CELESTE DANCING, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She comes! - the spirit of the dance Last Line: She had been talking all the while. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Variant Title(s): A Dancing Girl Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers CELIA IN ARDEN, by ELSA PUTNAM POWEL Poem Text First Line: Soft the air of summer in a moonlit garden Last Line: She dances till the summer moon sinks low. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ioye that alone with better bayes Last Line: And vse to loue the best. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dancing & Dancers; Home; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs CITIES OF ELD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the orient uplands afar Last Line: And even their gods unknown. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Dancing & Dancers; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Destiny CLUB NIGHT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLD HANDS WARM HEART, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every winter friday Last Line: As the ice of ladyhood gloves my fingers. Subject(s): Cold; Dancing & Dancers CONCERNING TABITHA'S DANCING OF THE MINUET, by ARTHUR WILLIS COLTON Poem Text First Line: Tabitha, sweet tabitha, I never can forget Last Line: And through it all I heard the fall of tabitha's brocade. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers COUNTRY FAIR, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amost anyone, I guess, can rent booth space Subject(s): Country Fairs; Hawks; Man-women Relationships; Dancing & Dancers; Girls CROOKED ANSWERS; DEDICATED TO THE LAUREATE: 2. MAUD, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, I cannot come into the garden just now Last Line: Why, it's not the least business of mine. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Gardens & Gardening; Women DANCE, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line of girls anathema, Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Left and right and swing around! Last Line: With the laughter of the heart! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Happiness; Joy; Delight DANCE FIGURE, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark eyed, / o woman of my dreams Subject(s): Marriage; Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DANCE INSTRUCTIONS FOR A YOUNG GIRL, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand: knees slightly / bent, toes in posed Last Line: Belong to you, a woman. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCE OF DEATH (AIR RAID AT NORWICH), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: The electric lights begin Last Line: And now begin the drums. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dead, The DANCE OF THE MACABRE MICE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the land of turkeys in turkey weather Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCE SCRIPT WITH ELECTRIC BALLERINA, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am on this ledge again Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCE TO BAAL, by FELIX KOWALEWSKI Poem Text First Line: With lithe young body sheathed in cloth-of-gold Last Line: To greet her lord in virgin arrogance! Subject(s): Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Gold; Idols; Statues DANCE, DANCE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have become quite a crowd: the ones Last Line: Your shadow plays in the light cast up by the world. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCE-WORSHIP, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze-spectator, still, awe-struck Last Line: "ave maria"" sing the breeze. " Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCER'S CONFESSION, by ANITA ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Two little dancing shoes Last Line: Too many cigarettes! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCERS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His high-flung noose had fallen Last Line: And the lean wolves pair. Subject(s): Atlantis; Dancing & Dancers; Mythology - Classical DANCERS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a notion tonight, that the earth and I, locked Last Line: Pause to behold us ... Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCERS AT THE MOY, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This italian square Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Horses DANCING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the passing of irresistible Last Line: Craving oxygen. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCING, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dancing! I love it, night or day Last Line: Adonis 'mid the charmers! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCING AT THE CHELSEA, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is no longer a question of balance and yet Last Line: Made in the aisle of an abandoned pullman. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; New York City; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DANCING GIRL, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black and tan - yeah, black and tan Last Line: Is this what your belly craves? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dancing & Dancers DANCING GIRLS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome once more, ye dancing forms Last Line: My soul: delight's elixir 'tis! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Women DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF A SON OF A BITCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God damn it, / at last I am going to dance on your grave, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationship; Divorce; Farewell; Money; Dancing & Dancers; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones DANCING THE MINUET, by FRANKLIN ELMER ELLSWORTH HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: Raise thy tender eyes to mine Last Line: As we dance the minuet. Subject(s): Courtship; Dancing & Dancers DANCING WITH POETS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The accident' is what he calls the time Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Dancing & Dancers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons DANCING WITH THE DOG, by SUSAN KENNEDY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep dark of december Last Line: Let's dance Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dogs DANSE AFRICAINE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The low beating of the tom-toms Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): African Dance Subject(s): African Americans; Dancing & Dancers; Negroes; American Blacks DANSE MACABRE, by HUGH WESTERN Poem Text First Line: Here is a morsel, my masters, a tit-bit Last Line: And looking at me? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Evil DAUGHTERS OF JEPHTHA, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dance! / dance the crumbling world's expanse Last Line: Dance! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Daughters DE CRITTERS' DANCE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't nobody nevah tol' you not a wo'd a-tall Last Line: Fu' a-dancin' wid de pa'son couldn't hu't de soul. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DE CUSHVILLE HOP, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'se gwine down to de cushville hop Last Line: I'se jes' caught mah motion fo' de cushville hop. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DECOR DE THEATRE: 2. THE PRIMROSE DANCE: TIVOLI; TO MINNIE CUNNINGHAM, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skirts like the amber petals of a flower Last Line: She dances at the tivoli. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DECOR DE THEATRE: 3. AT THE FORESTERS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of the gaslit wings Last Line: The softer welcome of your eyes. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DECOR DE THEATRE: 4. AIR DE BALLET (TO CLEO DE MERODE), by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it, child, you choose to wear Last Line: "I loved gavarni for a week." Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers DECOR DE THEATRE: 5. LA MELINITE: MOULIN-ROUGE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Olivier metra's waltz of roses Last Line: Back to a shadow in the night. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DEER DANCER, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nearly everyone had left that bar in the middle of winter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Dancing & Dancers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons DEIRDRE DANCING, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou not dance, daughter of heaven, today Last Line: And ridden from the breaking of the dawn. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DEMOGORGON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the devil of notre dame Last Line: His world! Subject(s): Charm; Dancing & Dancers; Devil; Mythology; Notre Dame University; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ENGLAND COUNTRY DANCE, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN Poem Text First Line: How funny 't is, when pretty lads and lasses Last Line: Raptures extatick. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; New England DEWEY AND DANCER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cambises king, the mexican bandit Subject(s): Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Storms DILEMMA, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and amusing he is, this handsome gallant Last Line: And while I hesitate, they both are mine Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DOROTHY DANCES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is no child that dances. This is flame Last Line: It is enough that flesh has danced with flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DORYPHA, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On holidays / when the cowboys and indians get drunk Last Line: With a flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Guitars; Holidays; Women DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 5. THE DANCING GIRL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know what it is to dance? Last Line: As here by the carib they're known. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Dancing & Dancers DREAM AND LIFE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was glowing, my heart, too, glow'd Last Line: A nasty insect meets my sight. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Life; Tears; Nightmares EARTH: THE PASSING OF A DANCER, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is made of mist and silver, and her Last Line: And the floor of heaven darkens, and the sound of feet is stilled. Variant Title(s): Earth: The Passing Of A Danger Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Earth; Dead, The; World ECHOES OF PHILAE, by H. THOMPSON RICH Poem Text First Line: Make way for the dancers! Last Line: That was ashes. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers EQUALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful dancing-women wove their maze Last Line: "shall be as all the saints are, in the dust." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust; Seduction; Theater & Theaters; Women's Rights; Stage Life; Feminism EVENTIDE, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The posters shout, their gorgeous motley blares Last Line: Oh, cover thy pale feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Parties EYES, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Seen from the balcony, looking down Last Line: Aglitter through the smoke. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Night Clubs; Striptease Dancers; Women FAMED DANCER DIES OF PHOSPHORUS POISONING, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear professor - no, my dear madame Last Line: L. Fuller, or as they call me here, la loie Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers FANCY'S KNELL, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lads were home from labour Last Line: And to earth I. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers FEAST OF CORPUS DIABOLI, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last droplet of wine catches fire in the bottom of the glass Last Line: Contemplate this solitary couple dancing Subject(s): Surrealism; Dancing & Dancers FOR AN ALLEGORICAL DANCE OF WOMEN (BY ANDREA MANTEGNA), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarcely, I think; yet it indeed may be Last Line: With all, though the mind's labour run to nought. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 3. A Dance Of Nymphs, By Andrea Mantegna Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Mantegna, Andrea (1431-1506); Paintings & Painters FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 3. THE DANCE, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All history was troubled by a dream Subject(s): Death; Dancing & Dancers; Dead, The FRIDAY MIXER, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chapel hill rotary invited me twice Last Line: The duchess who sailed days across a flat world Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Parties FRIENDS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a cottage in the sky Last Line: Thre feeling is a jewel like a pearl Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Nijinsky, Vaslav (1890-1950) GIGUE, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet dancers / twisting their backs toward a future Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness GRATIANA DANCING AND SINGING, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See! With what constant motion Last Line: The graces danced, and apollo played!' Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers HAIKU (FOR JOANNE), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet woman dancing Last Line: I see your riverbound legs Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers HER PROGRAMME OF DANCE, by ALFRED L. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: This little blue card I found on the floor Last Line: That first fatal day when I met her. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Flirtation I CAN DANCE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers I WENT TO THE BALL, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER First Line: And wore a red / dress, a thin silk sheath Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers I WOULD I COULD DANCE, by HELEN M. BROUGH Poem Text Last Line: Fore your laughing eye. Subject(s): Ambition; Dancing & Dancers; Longing IMPOSSIBLE IAMBICS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw a fire dancer take two flambeaus Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers IN THE BLOOD, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brown-eyed child Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing & Dancers; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood INSTRUCTIONS FOR A BALLET, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raise the right foot - bound in sheer Last Line: The final intrusion of buddha. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers INTERLUDE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow your tin squeals Last Line: Mon semblable, mon frere Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING 'IPHIGENIA IN AULIS', by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling the stones and let them all Last Line: And the dance is ended. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Variant Title(s): Isadora Duncan Dancing Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Duncan, Isadora (1878-1927) ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING (CHOPIN), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint preludings on a flute Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers JAVANESE DANCERS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twitched strings, the clang of metal, beaten drums Last Line: By the idolaters in a magic grove. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers JEREMIAD ON DANCING, by P. C. CALHOUN Poem Text First Line: Every night when I hitch the elastic Last Line: Why do I like it? I wonder! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers L'INDIFFERENT; WATTEAU; THE LOUVRE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He dances on a toe Last Line: Who dances and must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) LA GITANA, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: None of the girls of ronda have feet as fine as mine Last Line: Master and man and the bravest heart, sultan and slave and mate. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers LATIN CLASS, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Text First Line: Herschel will be pissed Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers LISTENING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wept in your mother's arms Last Line: To the pounding of the feet, the pulsing voices. Subject(s): Love; Dancing & Dancers; Life LISTENING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's to hear the children under my window Last Line: To the pounding of the feet, the pulsing voices. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life LOS GUITARISTAS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The music is a dance Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers MADRIGAL: HARK JOLLY SHEPHERDS, by THOMAS MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark jolly shepherds Last Line: With echoes sweet rebounding. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight MAGRITTE DANCING, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night I have to go to bed twice Subject(s): Insomnia; Neighbors; Dancing & Dancers; Sleeplessness MASK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer Last Line: Summer and the sun command you. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers MASQUERADE, by OLIVE CUSTANCE Poem Text First Line: Masked dancers in the dance of life Last Line: Until the dance is ended. Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life MAYPOLE CHORUS, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maypole! The maypole! Last Line: Merrily all the way. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Flowers; Kisses MERCE OF EGYPT, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the tree is a heron Subject(s): Cunningham, Merce; Dancing & Dancers METHODIST DANCER, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: They said the dance was all the devil's own Last Line: In beauty's clean, white flame. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Methodism; Religion; Theology MOBILE-BUCK, by JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, come erlong, come erlong Last Line: Well done, meh lady! Subject(s): African Americans; Dancing & Dancers; Gullahs; Negroes; American Blacks MORGIANA DANCES, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aha! A guest! Last Line: A dead guest, ho! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers MOUNTAIN FROLIC, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: In working clothes with song and whoop and shout Last Line: Shot dead for dancing with his pal's best girl. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Guns; Murder; Music & Musicians; Fairs; Pageants MY DANCIN'-DAYS IS OVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it in old fiddle-chunes Last Line: Jes' like afore her dancin'-days wuz over. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Memory MY LADY'S WITCHING DANCE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: On with the dance. My lady swings Last Line: No longer twain, but one. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Witchcraft & Witches MY PAPA'S WALTZ, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey on your breath / could make a small boy dizzy Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dancing & Dancers; Fathers; Men; Night; Play; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Bedtime NEREID, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: She dances on a scallop stage Last Line: By tossing sea weed at her feet. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean NO IMAGES, by WARING CURNEY Poem Text First Line: She does not know / her own beauty, Last Line: And dish water gives back no images. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity NORA ON THE PAVEMENT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As nora on the pavement Last Line: In that blithe madness of the soul of nora Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers OCTOBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Black and gold and red and brown Last Line: Dancing down the west. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; October OF WOMEN: 2. WHO SHOULD DANCE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: By night touching the jewelled frets Last Line: In bone the very form of love. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Women OFF THE GROUND, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three jolly farmers / once bet a pound Last Line: Off the ground!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers OLD FIDDLING JOSEY, by IRWIN RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Git yo' pardners, fust kwattilion! Last Line: Make yo' steps an' show yo' style. Variant Title(s): The Dance Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers ON A FEMALE ROPE-DANCER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 ON A JAPANESE NO DANCE, by ALICE ROGERS HAGER Poem Text First Line: When the spent pipes moan, slow, slow Last Line: Brocaded beauty shall avail nothing! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Japan; Lotus; Japanese; Lotos ORIENTAL DANCER, by MAX GOODLEY Poem Text First Line: Step up close, gents! This little lady will Last Line: They will look adult in big brother's pants. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers OVER THE MAY HILL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the night time, and all through the day time Last Line: My heart and my love will be lying ere long. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Hearts; Love; May (month); Night; Dead, The; Bedtime PANNYRA OF THE GOLDEN HEELS, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text 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 PAVANE, by ELEANOR ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Beside the amber pools of sleep Last Line: The water ripples gold. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lakes; Pools; Ponds PAVLOVA IN LONDON, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I listened to the hunger-hearted clown Last Line: And dancers, all the world of them, must fail. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Pavlova, Anna (1885-1931) PINON, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Incense-trees POLWART ON THE GREEN, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At polwart on the green Last Line: To take a part of mine. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers PRACTICE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Marjorie mary goes / charlestoning merrily Last Line: Hop. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers PRESTO AGITATO, by SYLVIA ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Your eyes-two luminous beads Last Line: Of a bacchanalian dance! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Would my humble comrades have me say Last Line: But leave our orphan squalling at your door. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; France; Friendship; Orphans; Plays & Playwrights; Foundlings RASHA MEASURE. A DANCE OF THE AUTUMN FESTIVAL OF INDIA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The champak showers its perfume from the trees Last Line: Where the breeze pipes in rasha measure for thee. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Fairs; Pageants RECOGNITION, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Text First Line: We met that evening at the dance Last Line: And you were lovely guinevere. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers RED BLUES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music. Then, more music. Does it matter what kind? Let's say it is bagpipes Last Line: It;s just me and my blues Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; Uncles REJECTED ADDRESSES: PUNCH'S APOTHEOSIS, BY T. H., by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As manager of horses, mr. Merryman is Last Line: [exeunt dancing. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hook, Theodore Edward (1788-1841) REMINISCES OF A DANCING MAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who now remember's almack's balls Last Line: To a thunderous jullien air? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers RETIRED BALLERINAS, CENTRAL PARK WEST, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Retired ballerinas on winter afternoons Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: POMARE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the gods of love are shouting Last Line: In that thou so much didst love. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; God; Hearts; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE GOLDEN CALF, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiddle, flute, and horn uniting Last Line: Kettle drums and ringing laughter! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Idols; Laughter; Music & Musicians ROSE AND MURRAY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the movie, when the lights come up Last Line: "drew a heart and wrote, ""I'd die for you." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Loss Of ROUND, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In light of day or full of moon Last Line: Kiss her whom you will. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Moon SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE FOURTH CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: A chair against a ballroom wall Last Line: But none at a dance for me! Subject(s): Chairs; Dancing & Dancers SEEN BY THE WAITS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through snowy woods and shady Last Line: We thought, but never said. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Widows & Widowers SERENADE AT THE CABIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my little sadie sue, I's a-serenadin' Last Line: My little, light-complected sadie sue! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Singing & Singers SHEERBA SMOKE, by M. ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: On a gaudy rug, / to the accompaniment Last Line: In the heart of a sapphire. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers SHINDIG IN THE COUNTRY, by D. A. ELLSWORTH Poem Text Last Line: Like the old shin-dig! Subject(s): Country Dances; Dancing & Dancers SHRODON FEAR: THE VU'ST PEART, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' zoo's the day wer warm an' bright Last Line: He didden even zweal the crown. Subject(s): Autumn; Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Magic; Seasons; Vanity; Fall; Fairs; Pageants SIRO DELMONICO, by SAMUEL WARD Poem Text First Line: He lieth low whose constant art Last Line: Than siro's memorable feasts. Alternate Author Name(s): W., S. G. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Feasts; New York City - 19th Century SOLILOQUY OF A MAIDEN AUNT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies bow, and partners set Last Line: Than when I wore it. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing & Dancers; Spinsters; Old Maids SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When tunes jigged nimbler than the blood Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Dancing & Dancers SONG OF SEID NIMETOLLAH OF KUHISTAN, by AMIR NURU'D-DIN NI'MATU'LLAH Poem Text First Line: Spin the ball! I reel, I burn Last Line: What men chatter know I not. Alternate Author Name(s): Seid Nimetollah; Sayyid [or Shah] Ni'matu'llah Of Kirman Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dervishes SONG OF THE WHITE LADY OF AVENEL, FR. THE MONASTERY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily swim we, the moon shines bright Last Line: For seldom they land that go swimming with me. Subject(s): Clergy; Dancing & Dancers; Love; Monks; Singing & Singers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 1. AT THE THEATRE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Thine eyes are set upon the dancing-girls before thee Last Line: Thou dost intoxicate both head and heart. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life SONNET, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tricks of pleasing thou has aye disdained Last Line: The guest all dimly feel, but few do know. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers SONNET: 44, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How healthily their feet upon the floor Last Line: I am rebuked that I believe in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Dance Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 10. TO A GITANA DANCING: SEVILLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you are fair as souls of the lost Last Line: You smile: was it all no longer ago than a dream? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Soul SPANISH DANCER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in one's hand a sulphur-match burns white Last Line: And stamps it out with little furious feet. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers SPRING, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, rrose selavy, wander out of reach Last Line: The moment the sun will break the bushes into flower Subject(s): Surrealism; Roses; Death; Dancing & Dancers TAPPING; FOR BABY LAURENCE AND OTHER TAP DANCERS, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I pat this floor Last Line: Go hmmmp hmmmmp hmmmmmp Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Jazz; Music & Musicians TARANTELLA, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember an inn, / miranda? Last Line: Of the far waterfall like doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 3. THE COUNTRY BALL, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, heaven be thank'd my first-love fail'd Last Line: That smoulder in the opal's veins. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE BABY'S DANCE, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance, little baby, dance up high Last Line: While the gay merry coral goes ding-a-ding, ding. Subject(s): Babies; Dancing & Dancers; Infants THE BALLERINA'S PROGRESS, OR THE POETRY OF MOTION, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With mantling cheek, with palpitating breast Last Line: And her unbent bow springs into the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers THE BALLET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They crush together - a rustling heap of flesh Last Line: Yet severed so many a mile! Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers THE BALLET RUSSE, by A. N. TANSEY Poem Text First Line: The overture begins the spell Last Line: To heights beyond the ken of words. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers THE BEST OF THE BALL, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: At last! O, sensation delicious! Last Line: For ours is the best of the ball. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Man-woman Relationships; Talk; Male-female Relations THE BEST SLOW DANCER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper Subject(s): Youth; Dancing & Dancers THE BUSTAN: THE DANCER, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard how, to the beat of some quick tune Last Line: "speaks infidelity, true lovers know!" Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE CAT AND THE MOON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat went here and there Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing & Dancers; Moon THE CHILD-DANCERS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bomb has fallen over notre dame Last Line: "bon soir! Bon soir! — good night!" Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE CHILDREN DANCING, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, sad thoughts, and teasing Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Childhood THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPS OF CHELTENHAM, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When hawthorn buds are creaming white Last Line: "I am looking for my children. Awake, and come away." Subject(s): Children; Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Dancing & Dancers; England; Faces; Singing & Singers; Childhood; English THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get ye up from the wrath of god's Last Line: And death brooded over the pride of the plain! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Theology THE COHERENCES, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For whom the Last Line: Speech Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Dancing & Dancers; Music, Rock; Travel; Rock & Roll; Journeys; Trips THE COLLIER'S WEDDING, SELECTION, by EDWARD CHICKEN Poem Text First Line: At last the beef appears in sight Last Line: So, curtseying, mumbled up his kiss. Subject(s): Brides; Dancing & Dancers; Food & Eating; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CORNET, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she came out, that white little russian dancer, Last Line: And the tired fingers on the stops of his cornet Subject(s): Desire; Dancing & Dancers THE COWBOY'S DANCE SONG, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now you can't expect a cowboy to agitate Last Line: When I put the cowboy trimmings on that high-toned dance. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' BALL, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Tunin' up the fiddle Last Line: But this beats dancin' at the cowboys' ball. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' CHRISTMAS BALL, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Way out in western texas where the clear fork waters flow Last Line: "that lively-gaited sworray — ""the cowboys' christmas ball." Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry Subject(s): Christmas; Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Nativity, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE DANCE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would have each couple turn Last Line: Love changes, and in change is true Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE DANCE, by OLIVE CUSTANCE Poem Text First Line: Do you remember the day I danced in the woods Last Line: The day when I dance again that mystical dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heel and toe, heel and toe Last Line: So goes the game on a winter's night. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the music play! Last Line: Let us dance till earth ceases to be! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCE, by DAVID NASH Poem Text First Line: On with the dance!' and the orchestra played Last Line: "on with the dance! May it ever be this!" Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance on; we would not touch you Last Line: Dance like a star on the sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Life; Music & Musicians; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE DANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Dreams of the ball! Last Line: Lest the song shall depart to its heaven—alone! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, reason, hate, did once bespeak Last Line: So love and folly were in hell. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE DANCE (1), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In brueghel's great picture, the kermess Variant Title(s): The Dance Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing & Dancers; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter THE DANCE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the snow falls the flakes Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Paintings And Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Fairs; Pageants THE DANCE AT SILVER VALLEY, by WILLIAM MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Don't you hear the big spurs jingle? Last Line: And danced his dance tonight. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Jealousy; Ranch Life; Violence; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DANCE AT THE LITTLE GILA RANCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Git yo' little fillies ready Last Line: Keno! Promenade to seats Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;parties;swings THE DANCE OF LOVE (WRITTEN FOR MADAME LIZA LEHMANN), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music sighs and slumbers Last Line: Love's ecstasy and pain. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians THE DANCE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF HERODIAS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the petals falling from the rose Last Line: Of the last petals falling from the rose. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCE OF THE MUSES, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin we from the muses, o my song! Last Line: His lambs beneath the holy helicon. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Helicon (mountain), Greece THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN SINS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call in the dancers Last Line: Heaven too shall vanish in pale smoke. Subject(s): Anger; Dancing & Dancers; Gluttony; Idleness; Lies; Lust; Pride; Sin; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE DANCER, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dancer mended sheep and tended fences Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DANCER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The great white moon is not so fair Last Line: Thou'lt fall into my arms in a trance. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it your body lifted up Last Line: With wild love in your eyes. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love THE DANCER, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not dance / I say I will not dance Last Line: I'm going to my dead ...! Ah, stamping swine! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO-PATRICK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, proclaiming that there is Last Line: Acclaiming, proclaming, declaiming him Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCERS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dance and dance! Another faun Last Line: I will outdance him! Ho, ho, ho! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Childhood THE DANCING GIRL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light and joyous figure, one that seems Last Line: The dust and ashes of a happier time. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DANCING OF SULEIMA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When suleima, the bayadere Last Line: "revenge!"" -- thrilled down the night." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Revenge; Seduction THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of herodias, / she danced before the king Last Line: In that abysmal sleep! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Sleep THE DAYS OF SUN, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Childhood's days are days of sun Last Line: Wherethrough blithe footsteps skip and run! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Innocence; Sun; Childhood THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 2. HOW WE DANCED, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my cousin's wedding Last Line: Like two lonely swans Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Dancing & Dancers THE DONNYBROOK JIG, by WENTWORTH DILLON Poem Text First Line: Oh! 'twas dermot o'nolan m'figg Last Line: "and by me he'll be ne'er kilt again." Alternate Author Name(s): Roscommon, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Murder THE DOUBLE VISION OF MICHAEL ROBARTES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the grey rock of cashel Last Line: In cormac's ruined house. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death THE ELVES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with marjoram, clover and thyme Last Line: The dancing elves in the moonlight mime. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Moon; Elves THE ELVES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with thyme and marjory Last Line: Merry elves dance on the lea. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Moon; Elves THE FAN DANCE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was seven and sally rand wasn't wearing Subject(s): Children; Burlesque; Dancing & Dancers; Innocence THE FASHIONS, 1806, by LEWIS BEACH Poem Text First Line: A lad came down from our town Last Line: And turn'd them out of door, sir. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fashion; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I play on my fiddle in dooney Last Line: And dance like a wave of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE FIREMEN'S BALL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give the engines room Last Line: Clang . . . Clang . . . Clang. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Fire; Firefighters; Life; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE FIRST EXTRA; A WALTZ SONG, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sway, and swing, and sway Last Line: This is the best of all. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE FLAPPER, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long the darling daughter squirms Last Line: The canto amoroso of her hips. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Youth THE GIDDY GIRL; A RECITATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A giddy young maiden with nimble feet Last Line: Chassée back, chassée back, whirl about quick. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Soul; Dead, The THE HARLEM DANCER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes Last Line: I knew her self was not in that strange place. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Harlem (new York City) THE HARLOT'S HOUSE, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We caught the tread of dancing feet Last Line: Crept like a frightened girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dead, The THE INCENSE DANCE, by T. LAWRASON RIGGS Poem Text First Line: Through the dim hangings, slowly cleft in twain Last Line: In rosy haidarabad or kashmir's storied vale. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Yale University THE INDIAN DANCER, by ANNA TILLMAN BOYD Poem Text First Line: O I'm an indian dancing man Last Line: And dance as only indians can! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE IRISH DANCER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am of ireland Last Line: Come and dance with me / in ireland Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;ireland; Irish THE LEAP, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only thing I have of jane macnaughton Last Line: While I examine my hands Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Memory; Suicide THE LITTLE DANCERS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely, save for a few faint stars, the sky Last Line: Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE LOST CHARLESTON STEP, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Have you forgotten that step Last Line: "little boy blues!" Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE LOST DANCER, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spatial depths of being survive Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE MALICE-DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An intolerable singing Last Line: Round that dial of the moon! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE MASQUER IN THE STREET, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Masquer on the rainy stones Last Line: And now dance alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE MAYPOLE [DANCE], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, lasses and lads, take leave of your dads" Last Line: "and each a two pence, two pence, two pence gave him; and went away" Variant Title(s): The Rural Dance About The Maypole Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;youth THE MIDGET DANCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I scan the storied pages Last Line: Finds life . . . A midget dance! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life; Love; Nations; War; Youth THE MINUET, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma told me all about it Last Line: "long ago." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE MINUET, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clustered like roses, the golden lights Last Line: The proud, the leisurely minuet. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents; Parenthood THE MOUNTAIN TOMB: 1. TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dance there upon the shore Last Line: The monstrous crying of wind? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE NEGRO DANCERS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lit with cheap colored lights a basement den Last Line: All other things, however great, come after. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE NIGHT AT THE PALAIS, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just fifteen, we had to lie to get in there Last Line: Still and watched they fly like crazy angels Subject(s): Night Clubs; Manchester, England; Teenagers; Dancing & Dancers; Friendship; Innocence THE PAINTED VASE, by GABRIEL SOULAGES Poem Text First Line: La rosalba disdaining for a day his paints and / brushes Last Line: They dance around a lake on which the leaves of autumn fall. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Relationships THE PAVANE, by DORIS ELLEN BIESTERFELD Poem Text First Line: Four rows of four Last Line: The solemn strain lingering. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE PHANTOM BALL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the hall on the corner? Last Line: And I came away from the hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Ghosts; Past; Supernatural THE PHANTOM OF A ROSE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah,' thought she, 'if there Last Line: Fused into the heart of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers THE RADIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another morning I rose before work Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Radio; Imagination; Fancy THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 16. THE DANCE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then still in her dream / she held out her hand Last Line: A different summer. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 17. JOURNEY'S END, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then as she danced, / forgetting the spell Last Line: Dancing delicately. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Elves THE ROCKETTES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now when those girls, all thirty-six, go Last Line: They know we know they know we know Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE ROOM OF MIRRORS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a room where many feet were dancing Last Line: What is this room of mirrors? Who can say? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE ROUND, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Should all the girls of the world be fain to join their hands and form Last Line: Should all folk of the world be fain to join their hands and form a chain. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE SHOES THAT DANCED, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms perish in the snow Last Line: Even to destruction and to utter death. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Paintings & Painters; Shoes; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SONG OF WILLI, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild wind is whistling o'er moorland and heather Last Line: Then down, love to death, but with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hungary THE SORROWFUL MASQUERADE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even as to a music, stately and sad Last Line: She needs must cover up her face and weep. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE STAG LINE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: There are lions and funny birdies, and enormous goofers that Last Line: Though lots of them have buns on when they want to dance with you! Subject(s): Animals; Dancing & Dancers; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE TOILET OF CONSTANCE, by JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE Poem Text First Line: Haste, anna! Did you hear me call? Last Line: At the ambassador's of france. Alternate Author Name(s): Delavigne, Casimir Subject(s): Accidents; Dancing & Dancers; France; Youth THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you danced from midnight Last Line: With their lucifer kicking Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Air Travel THE VALSE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When to sweet music my lady is dancing Last Line: Ah -- now it is done -- so -- my lady, good-night! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE VIVANDIERE ('70), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yvonne, / how you dazzled in the dance! Last Line: For yvonne the vivandière! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Marital; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs THE WALTZ, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse of the many-twinkling feet! Whose charms Last Line: Grandsons for me -- in heirs to all his friends. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE WALTZ, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in my arms thou restest, / as round we go, and round Last Line: Juanita, round and round! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boing, boing, boing Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Astaire, Fred (1899-1987); Rogers, Ginger (1911-1995); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE WEDDING RING DANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dance in circles holding Last Line: Waiting for a magnet Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Marriage THE WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels; Theology TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND: 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has no one said those daring / kind eyes should be more learned? Last Line: And I speak a barbarous tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers TO A DANCER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intoxicatingly / her eyes across the Last Line: Her eyes that gleam for me! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers TO A DANCER OF TANAGRA; FOR EMMA WILLARD SCUDDER KEYES, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Around thee, barefoot girl, there float Last Line: Our hearts make music yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers TO A DANCING PARTNER, by MAX EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Suppose that in my poem you shall find Last Line: Will you be dreaming or remembering? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers TO A FRIEND WRITING ON CABARET DANCERS, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good 'hedgethorn,' for we'll anglicize your name Last Line: "la donna e mobile." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers TO LEONIDE MASSINE IN 'CLEOPATRA', by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour Last Line: Be still; you have drained the cup; you have played your part. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Massine, Leonide (1896-1979); World War I; First World War TO WALTZ WITH THEE, by GEORGE B. ZUG Poem Text First Line: To waltz with thee, my pretty belle, Last Line: To waltz with thee! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers TRAGEDIES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She was a dancer, - I was the master Last Line: In a laughing wanton's bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Heaven; Night; Tragedy; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime TULLOCHGORUM, by JOHN SKINNER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gi'es a sang, montgomery cried Last Line: The reel o' tullochgorum! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Politics & Government TWINKLETOES, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: When suzanne / steps to the beat of the music's zest Last Line: On twinkletoes. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts UPON HIS MISTRESS DANCING, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 VARIATIONS: 4, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, alone, unknown, in the darkness Last Line: Passionate dancer. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers VARSOVIENNE, by MARY BEATRICE CORWIN Poem Text First Line: The rhythmic rumble of bassoons Last Line: "and strike the chords for ""varsovienne""." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers WALL-FLOWER, by EDNA GILLESPIE Poem Text First Line: To you who like slender lances Last Line: That we may sparkle among the dead. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers WALTZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night-snow, the floating snow Subject(s): Relationships; Snow; Dancing & Dancers WAR, THE DESTROYER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is war, / the destroyer / but an appurtenance Last Line: Beside the face Subject(s): War; Dancing & Dancers WHEN JOHN TURNS ON THE RADIO, by GENEVA HARRIS SCOTT Poem Text First Line: When john turns on the radio Last Line: When john turns on the radio. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Radio WHEN MY PARENTS DANCED THE TANGO, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's just another latin american dance these days Last Line: Fires, lust and daring! My poor lost fools! Subject(s): Parents; Dancing & Dancers WHEN YOU'RE DANCING, MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD DANCE WITH YOU, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring my name upon a platter, I have danced Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers WITHIN LIMITS, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never learned Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers WIZARD'S WELL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trudchen! Trudchen!' teased the maids Last Line: Tell me -- did that wish come true? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Kisses; New York City - Dutch Period WRINKLY LADY DANCER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to be an old wrinkly lady dancer Last Line: The afternoon! I danced! Naked with you! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Women; Wrinkles |
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