In Other Words
Let us then be up and pounding
Piffle of the kind that flaunts
Its inanity astounding!
“Give the public what it wants!”
Piffle of the kind that flaunts
Its inanity astounding!
“Give the public what it wants!”
THE CLASSIC DANCE
Isadora, when you dance
I am bounden by no thrall,
And the Rhythm of old Romance
Surges o’er me not at all.
I am bounden by no thrall,
And the Rhythm of old Romance
Surges o’er me not at all.
Critics with a keener eye,
Judges with a broader view,
Tell me that your Art is high—
Wonderful the things you do.
Judges with a broader view,
Tell me that your Art is high—
Wonderful the things you do.
Banal I and low my brow,
And my bean is built of bone,
For allegiance I vow
To Montgomery and Stone.
And my bean is built of bone,
For allegiance I vow
To Montgomery and Stone.
KITTY GORDON
“It is not beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon’s despair,
Nor the snow’s daughter, a white hand,
Nor mermaid’s yellow pride of hair.”
These lyric lines are not my own;
They’re by an elder bard, unknown.
A crystal brow, the moon’s despair,
Nor the snow’s daughter, a white hand,
Nor mermaid’s yellow pride of hair.”
These lyric lines are not my own;
They’re by an elder bard, unknown.
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