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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NORA ON THE PAVEMENT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS 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 | |||
As Nora on the pavement Dances, and she entrances the grey hour Into the laughing circle of her power, The magic circle of her glances, As Nora dances on the midnight pavement; Petulant and bewildered, Thronging desires and longing looks recur, And memorably re-incarnate her, As I remember that old longing, A footlight fancy, petulant and bewildered; There where the ballet circles, See her, but ah! not free her from the race Of glittering lines that link and interlace; This colour now, now that, may be her, In the bright web of those harmonious circles. But what are these dance-measures, Leaping and joyous, keeping time alone With life's capricious rhythm, and all her own, Life's rhythm and hers, long sleeping, That wakes, and knows not why, in these dance-measures? It is the very Nora; Child, and most blithe, and wild as any elf, And innocently spendthrift of herself, And guileless and most unbeguiled, Herself at last, leaps free the very Nora. It is the soul of Nora, Living at last, and giving forth to the night, Bird-like, the burden of its own delight, All its desire, and all the joy of living, In that blithe madness of the soul of Nora | 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 NERVES by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS |
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