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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BALLET Matches Found: 19 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; BALLERINA AT THE POTTER'S WHEEL, by LISA ORAM Poem Source First Line: Like a fist, her long body Last Line: As big as she was small, %a moment before Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers; Pottery And Potters BALLET, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: The tamarack %in snowy tutu Last Line: Poises on tiptoe, %awaiting her cue Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers 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 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 FOR A BALLERINA WHO DIED OF ANOREXIA, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her body inscribes an arc like a fine metal Last Line: By eaters of large expensive dinners Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Ballet I CANNOT DANCE UPON MY TOES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It's full as opera— Subject(s): Ballet; Wit & Humor IN THE BALLET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I advance and extend my hand Last Line: Must imagine our pas de deux Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers 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 MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source 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 And Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents 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) 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 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 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 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 POTAPOVITCH (OF THE BALLET RUSSE), by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vault on the opal carpet of the sun Last Line: Though silent as your sandals, danced undone Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers WATCHING THE DANCE: 1. BALANCHINE'S, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor savage, doubting that a river flows Last Line: Be still. Observe the powers. Infer the stream Subject(s): Balanchine, George (1904-1983); Ballet; Dancing And Dancers |
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