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Subject: RUBENS, PETER PAUL (1577-1640)
Matches Found: 8

MY HAND PLACED ON A RUBENS DRAWING: 1, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is what it is, %and being what it is, is something more
Last Line: The history that now rejects my hand
Subject(s): Drawing; Hands; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


MY HAND PLACED ON A RUBENS DRAWING: 2. WOMAN WITH CROSSED HANDS, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the usual rubens woman
Last Line: Have sculpted to simple peace and simple welcome
Subject(s): Hands; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Sculpture And Sculptors; Women


MY HAND PLACED ON A RUBENS DRAWING: 3., by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ages work toward mastery
Last Line: Of the vision that burned to draw it whole
Subject(s): Drawing; History; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


ON THE LUXEMBOURG GALLERY, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a charm no vulgar mind can reach
Last Line: Breaks o'er the bound, the refluent ebb of taste %back from the shore impels the wat'ry waste
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


RUBENS, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus o'er his art indignant rubens reared
Last Line: Back from the shore impels the watery waste.
Subject(s): Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


THE WOMEN OF RUBENS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Giantesses, female fauna
Subject(s): Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Women


TO ENGLISH CONNOISSEURS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You must agree that rubens was a fool
Last Line: And not a brewers servant my good sir
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Critics & Criticism; Mythology; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


WOMEN OF RUBENS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Giantesses, female fauna
Last Line: Mount rides into the seething alcove
Subject(s): Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Women