A Wall Flower - Swing Mix

Source poem by Amy Levy

I lounge in the doorway and languish in vain
While Tom, Dick and Harry are dancing with Jane

My spirit rises to the music’s beat;
There is a leaden fiend lurks in my feet!
To move unto your motion, Love, were sweet.

Somewhere, I think, some other where, not here,
In other ages, on another sphere,
I danced with you, and you with me, my dear.

In perfect motion did our bodies sway,
To perfect music that was heard alway;
Woe’s me, that am so dull of foot to-day!

To move unto your motion, Love, were sweet;
My spirit rises to the music’s beat—
But, ah, the leaden demon in my feet!

Poem is public domain.

A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1889), Project Gutenberg ebook 56974