Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Miscellaneous | | Art Criticism | | Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | 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 | 5 |
| 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, | 10 |
| I am content, yet fain would look abroad | |
| On one warm sunset of Ausonian Claude. | | | | |
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