Thy fairy feet so lightly go they seem the earth to spurn.

(from) To Jessie's Dancing Feet

William De Lancey Ellwanger (1900)

How, as a spider’s web is spun
With subtle grace and art,
Do thy light footsteps, every one,
Cross and recross my heart!
Now here, now there, and to and fro,
Their winding mazes turn;
Thy fairy feet so lightly go
They seem the earth to spurn.
Yet every step leaves there behind
A something, in thy dance,
That serves to tangle up my mind
And all my soul entrance.

the image is a detail from Elves and Fairies, by an unknown (to me) artist , courtesy of Art Passions