Here you are, grand old sensualist! <br />And here are the three goddesses <br />displaying their charms to Paris. <br />It was all one to you &mdash goddesses, saints, court ladies &mdash <br />Your world was all curves of flesh <br />rolling curves repeated like a shell. <br />Mary Magdalen was almost as good copy as Venus, <br />Angels might be voluptuous as nymphs. <br /> <br />It was a rich old gorgeous world you painted &mdash <br />For kinds or prelates, what mattered! &mdash palace or church! <br />You had a wonderful, glorious time! &mdash <br />And no doubt the ladies loved you.<br /><br />Harriet Monroe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rubens/
