Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960). The Joys of Art. Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. 1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

The Joys of Art

By Rachel Annand Taylor (1876–1960)


AS a dancer dancing in a shower of roses before her King
(A dreamer dark, the King)
Throws back her head like a wind-loved flower, and makes her cymbals ring
(O’er her lit eyes they ring);
As a fair white dancer strange of heart, and crown’d and shod with gold,	5
My soul exults before the Art, the magian Art of old.