C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Art Criticism

FIRST bring me Raffael, who alone hath seen

In all her purity heaven’s virgin queen,

Alone hath felt true beauty; bring me then

Titian, ennobler of the noblest men;

And next the sweet Correggio, nor chastise

His little Cupids for those wicked eyes.

I want not Rubens’s pink puffy bloom,

Nor Rembrandt’s glimmer in a dusty room.

With those, and Poussin’s nymph-frequented woods,

His templed heights and long-drawn solitudes,

I am content, yet fain would look abroad

On one warm sunset of Ausonian Claude.