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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PANNYRE OF THE GOLDEN HEELS, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poet's Biography
First Line: On the loud room falls silence like a trance
Last Line: Pannyre now flashes -- naked and divine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Silence
First Line: On the loud room falls silence like a trance
Last Line: Pannyre now flashes -- naked and divine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Silence
ON the loud room falls silence like a trance . . .
Pannyre with golden heels comes forth to dance.
A thousand folded veil covers her quite.
With a long trill the silver flutes invite.
She starts, crosses her steps, and with a slow
Movement and sinuous her lithe arms throw
The quivering gauze into a rhythm bizarre,
Which spreads and undulates and floats afar
And like a glittering whirlwind passes by . . .
And she is flower and flame and butterfly!
The rapt eyes follow; there is not a stir.
The fury of the dance enkindles her.
She turns and whirls, swifter she whirls and wheels!
The mad flame in the golden torches reels! . . .
Suddenly, in the middle hall, she stops;
The veil, but now a flying spiral, drops
Suspended, marble-calm each long fold lies
Clinging to pointed breasts and polished thighs,
And as through flowing water's silken shine,
Pannyre now flashes -- naked and divine.
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