English Poetry. William Shenstone. On Miss M–‘s’s Dancing. Уильям Шенстон.

William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон)

On Miss M–‘s’s Dancing

Of all that gives politeness birth,
Of all that claims to please,
In motion, manners, or in mirth,
The surest source is ease.

With silent step, and graceful air,
See gentle Sylvia move;
Whilst heedless gazers, unaware,
Resign their soul to love.

Accomplish'd maid! my trivial rhyme
Must do thy graces wrong;
Who dost not only dance in time,
But steal, like time, along.

William Shenstone’s other poems:

1. The Invidious
2. Elegy. His Recantation
3. Song (I told my nymph, I told her true)
4. Elegy. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance
5. Elegy. He Describes His Early Love of Poetry, and Its Consequences

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