Richard Lovelace

Here you will find the Poem Gratiana Dancing of poet Richard Lovelace

Gratiana Dancing

SHE beat the happy pavement-- 
By such a star made firmament, 
   Which now no more the roof envies! 
   But swells up high, with Atlas even, 
   Bearing the brighter nobler heaven, 
   And, in her, all the deities. 

Each step trod out a Lover's thought, 
And the ambitious hopes he brought 
   Chain'd to her brave feet with such arts, 
   Such sweet command and gentle awe, 
   As, when she ceased, we sighing saw 
   The floor lay paved with broken hearts.