<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Perdita</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She dances,<br>And I seem to be<br>In primrose vales of Sicily,<br>Beside the streams once looked upon<br>By Thyrsis and by Corydon:<br>The sunlight laughs as she advances,<br>Shyly the zephyrs kiss her hair,<br>And she seems to me as the wood-fawn, free,<br>And as the wild rose, fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dance, Perdita! and shepherds, blow!<br>Your reeds restrain no longer!<br>Till weald and welkin gleeful ring,<br>Blow, shepherds, blow! and, lasses, sing,<br>Yet sweeter strains and stronger!<br>Let far Helorus softer flow<br>'Twixt rushy banks, that he may hear;<br>Let Pan, great Pan himself, draw near!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stately<br>She moves, half smiling<br>With girlish look beguiling,—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dawn-like grace in all her face;<br>Stately she moves, sedately,<br>Through the crowd circling round her;<br>But—swift as light—<br>See! she takes flight!<br>Empty, alas! is her place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Follow her, follow her, let her not go!<br>Mirth ended so—<br>Why, 't is but woe!<br>Follow her, follow her! Perdita !—lo,<br>Love hath with wreaths enwound her!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She dances,<br>And I seem to see<br>The nymph divine, Terpsichore,<br>As when her beauty dazzling shone<br>On eerie heights of Helicon.<br>With bursts of song her voice entrances<br>The dreamy, blossom-scented air,<br>And she seems to me as the wood-fawn, free,<br>And as the wild rose, fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118535" data-title="Perdita de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="She dances,/And I seem to be/In primrose vales of Sicily,/Beside the streams once looked upon/By Thyrsis and by Corydon:/The sunlight laughs as she advances,/Shyly the zephyrs kiss her hair,/And she seems to me as the wood-fawn, free,/And as the w..."></div> </div> </div>

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