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...MY HUT; AFTER TRAN QUANG KHAI by HAYDEN CARRUTH SONG FOR A VIOLA D'AMORE by AMY LOWELL THE STARLING; SONNET by AMY LOWELL TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES by AMY LOWELL THE GAME OF CHESS by EZRA POUND THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER by JOHN CROWE RANSOM |