LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Upon His Mistress Dancing by James Shirley (1596-1666). This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 15th to January 22nd, 2012.
James Shirley (sometimes spelt Sherley) was a prolific English playwright and poet who was active in the first half of the seventeenth century.
(Summary by Lucy Perry)
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(Total running time: 0:16:00)
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Upon His Mistress Dancing
I stood and saw my mistress dance,
Silent, and with so fix’d an eye,
Some might suppose me in a trance;
But being asked why,
By one that knew I was in love,
I could not but impart
My wonder, to behold her move
So nimbly with a marble heart.
This week’s poem can be found here.
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