Sir Joshua sent his own Portrait to The birth Place of Michael Angelo And in the hand of the simpering fool He put a Dirty paper scroll And on the paper to be polite Did Sketches by Michel Angelo write The Florentines said Tis a Dutch English bore Michael Angelos Name writ on Rembrandts door The Florentines call it an English Fetch For Michael Angelo did never Sketch Every line of his has Meaning And needs neither Suckling nor Weaning Tis the trading English Venetian Cant To speak Michael Angelo & Act Rembrandt It will set his Dutch friends all in a roar To write Mch Ang on Rembrandts Door But You must not bring in your hand a Lie If you mean that the Florentines should buy Ghiottos Circle or Apelles Line Were not the Work of Sketchers drunk with Wine Nor of the City Clarks merry hearted Fashion Nor of Sir Isaac Newtons Calculation Nor of the City Clarks Idle Facilities Which sprang from Sir Isaac Newtons great Abilities These Verses were written by a very Envious Man Who whatever likeness he may have to Michael Angelo Never can have any to Sir Jehoshuan | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN EPITAPH ON M.H. by CHARLES COTTON THE AMERICAN FLAG by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE MARY MAGDALENE by GEORGE HERBERT SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMANDA BARKER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 2. PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE DAY-DREAM: MORAL by ALFRED TENNYSON |