waltz-rhythm

Updated: May 2, 2025

The moon rises through the majestic arch of the sky and makes the tamarisk-trees gorgeous; the warm air flows gently; the dancers float round to the wild waltz-rhythm; and the imitation of home is kept up with zeal by the stout general, the grave and scholarly judge, the fresh subaltern, and by all the bright ladies who are in exile.

James Runciman - The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions: Joints In Our Social Armour

They are, indeed, dance-poems whose content is the poetry of waltz-rhythm and movement, and the feelings these indicate and call forth.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2