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UPON HIS MISTRESS DANCING by JAMES SHIRLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: I STOOD AND SAW MY MISTRESS DANCE
Last Line: SO NIMBLY WITH A MARBLE HEART.
Subject(s): DANCING & DANCERS;
I STOOD and saw my Mistress dance,
Silent, and with so fixed an eye,
Some might suppose me in a trance:
But being asked why,
By one that knew I was in love,
I could not but impart
My wonder, to behold her move
So nimbly with a marble heart.



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