She was our queen, our rose, our star;
And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!
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"The Belle of the Ball" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 139.Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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When she read my first book Visions and Revisions, she sent me so many red roses that they filled the little flat, but I was too nervous to go and see her. She has been one of the most thrilling sensations — but that is a wretched word to express it — of my whole existence. She has danced for me alone — with a beauty that makes the most beautiful young girls' dancing seem mere child's play. It was as though Demeter herself, the mater dolorosa of the ancient earth, rose and danced. Well, she has gone — and I enclose to you the red rose she gave to me as she went.
Isadora Duncan
The star that danced at Carroll's birth
In high exuberance of mirth
Is dancing yet.Charles (Lewis Carroll) Dodgson
The star that danced at Carroll's birth
In high exuberance of mirth
Is dancing yet.Lewis Carroll
I danced in the morning
When the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon
And the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven
And I danced on the earth,
At Bethlehem
I had my birth.Sydney Carter
Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,
Come hither, the dances are done,
In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls,
Queen lily and rose in one;
Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls,
To the flowers, and be their sun.Alfred (Lord) Tennyson
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