As if I mocked him or Love, so wounded he dreams me
on swift legs a doe-woman with bow and arrow
the graceful counterpart of the centaurs equally shy, but more slender
equally modest but not didactic equally wise, but a woman
equally free, but subject to his desire to possess my desires, and to let me
do as he pleases: to stay sharp in view as I run, to look with longing
at him, and panting, entangled in his hands, to keep looking until he is satisfied
Ballet "Sylvia ou la nymphe de Diane" ("Sylvia or the nymph of Diane", 1876, music LÊo Delibes, libretto Jules Barbier and Jacques de Reinach, after the 1573 poem "Aminta" by Torquato Tassos)