Poem by Eleanor Farjeon

Jessica Dances

When Joy and Molly on the lawn
Danced bare of foot like spirits of dawn
Jessica watched in wonderment
Until delight would not be pent,
And shoe and sock she cast in mirth
And felt her naked toes touch earth.
Swiftly the fresh green joy shot in
Through the fresh young rosy skin,
And in a golden glee the child
Went dancing innocently-wild
Up and down and round and round
Like daisies covering the ground,
Called sunward by the age-long spell
No ages can destroy
Of youth that never sighed or sinned,—
While elfin Molly and fairy Joy
Danced on like lilies in a dell
Or harebells in the wind. 

1. Sonnets. 9. Love Needs not Two the Render It Complete
2. The Reflection
3. In the Oculist's Anteroom
4. Sonnets. 16. O lovely life, how you have worn me out
5. Sonnets. 10. What is this anguish then that always stands

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