The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147770 Message #3426729
Posted By: Joe Offer
27-Oct-12 - 02:17 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Streets Of Cairo
Subject: ADD: The Ballet-Girl (poem)
A related poem, which doesn't scan to the same melody:
With complexion like the rose 'Mid the snows. Due to powder on her nose, I suppose, She twirls upon her toes In abbreviated clothes And exhibits spangled hose To her beaux.
When cruel Time bestows Adipose, Fairy parts and all those She outgrows, And murmuringly goes To the very hindmost rows, To pirouette and pose With the "crows."
When life frayed and faded grows, Like her bows, She in garrets sits and sews Furbelows, Till her weary eyelids close In the peace of death's repose. Is she reaping what she sows? Heaven knows!