Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: II. For Children | | The Dancers | | Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley) (1846–1914) |
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I DANCE and dance! Another faun, | |
| A black one, dances on the lawn. | |
| He moves with me, and when I lift | |
| My heels his feet directly shift: | |
| I can’t outdance him though I try; | 5 |
| He dances nimbler than I. | |
| I toss my head, and so does he; | |
| What tricks he dares to play on me! | |
| I touch the ivy in my hair; | |
| Ivy he has and finger there. | 10 |
| The spiteful thing to mock me so! | |
| I will outdance him! Ho, ho, ho! | | | | |
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