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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING SLIPPERS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON
First Line: When down the marble steps girls ran tonight
Last Line: Shoe butterflies by shining music chased.
Subject(s): Evening; Girls; Shoes; Sunset; Twilight; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers
First Line: When down the marble steps girls ran tonight
Last Line: Shoe butterflies by shining music chased.
Subject(s): Evening; Girls; Shoes; Sunset; Twilight; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers
When down the marble steps girls ran tonight
Like brilliant birds were their slim shoes of green
Of amber-rose, of mauve, of crimosin,
Shell-fluted with thread-silver . . . lazulite,
Dawn-gold, pale orchid-violet, silver, white!
Why, every girl was shod like some brave queen.
Nay, what famed royal foot has dancetime seen
So evening-slippered . . . blue and bronze and bright?
These graceful girls with feet in velvet shoon,
Those in mosaic doeskins soft encased,
Were flying fairies from the iris moon:
Titanias all -- their feet by flowers embraced.
They danced . . . shoe petals blown upon a tune --
Shoe butterflies by shining music chased.
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