To A Dancer

Intoxicatingly Her eyes across the footlights gleam, (The wine of love, the wine of dream) Her eyes, that gleam for me! The eyes of all that see Draw to her glances, stealing fire From her desire that leaps to my desire; Her eyes that gleam for me! Subtly, deliciously, A quickening fire within me, beat The rhythms of her poising feet; Her feet that poise to me! Her body's melody, In silent waves of wandering sound, Thrills to the sense of all around, Yet thrills alone for me! And oh, intoxicatingly, When, at the magic moment's close, She dies into the rapture of repose, Her eyes that gleam for me!