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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 44, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 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 | |||
How healthily their feet upon the floor Strike down! These are no spirits, but a band Of children, surely, leaping hand in hand Into the air in groups of three and four, Wearing their silken rags as if they wore Leaves only and light grasses, or a strand Of black elusive seaweed oozing sand, And running hard as if along a shore. I know how lost forever, and at length How still these lovely tossing limbs shall lie, And the bright laughter and the panting breath; And yet, before such beauty and such strength, Once more, as always when the dance is high, I am rebuked that I believe in death. | 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 AFTERNOON ON A HILL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
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