Skirts like the amber petals of a flower, A primrose dancing for delight In some enchantment of a bower That rose to wizard music in the night; A rhythmic flower whose petals pirouette In delicate circles, fain to follow The vague aerial minuet, The mazy dancing of the swallow; A flower's caprice, a bird's command Of all the airy ways that lie In light along the wonder-land, The wonder-haunted loneliness of sky: So, in the smoke-polluted place, Where bird or flower might never be, With glimmering feet, with flower-like face, She dances at the Tivoli. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RED TURTLENECK by KAREN SWENSON THE KNIGHT'S TOMB by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE NIGHTMARE, FR. IOLANTHE by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT HIS RETURN TO LONDON by ROBERT HERRICK RENASCENCE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 3. OF CONTENTMENT by WILLIAM BASSE PSALM 23. THE SHEPHERD'S PSALM by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |