Shadowed velvet and rosy pearls, Mechlin lace in wide-set bands, Heavy neck and florid face, Smoothly sensual hands. Matchless emeralds around the throat, Fingers clustered with showy rings, Flemish figure and bovine gaze, -- The gaze that feeds on things. Hard blue eyes in a hard drab brow, Set with a curious Eastern slant, -- Yes, it's an excellent likeness, that, -- Rembrandt's portrait of my Aunt! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLUEFLAGS by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE CHRONICLE; A BALLAD by ABRAHAM COWLEY THE SEA by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY by WILLIAM SHENSTONE THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS by ROBERT SOUTHEY UPON A WASP CHILLED WITH COLD by EDWARD TAYLOR |