<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457215" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Judgement Of Venus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Kneller's works, of various grace,<br>Were to fair Venus shown, <br>The Goddess spied in every face<br>Some features of her own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just so, (and pointing with her hand)<br>So shone, says she, my eyes,<br>When from two goddesses I gain'd<br>An apple for a prize.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When in the glass and river too<br>My face I lately view'd,<br>Such was I, if the glass be true,<br>If true the crystal flood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In colours of this glorious kind<br>Apelles painted me;<br>My hair, thus flowing with the wind<br>Sprung from my native sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like this disorder'd, wild, forlorn,<br>Big with ten thousand fears,<br>Thee, my Adonis, did I mourn<br>E'en beautiful in tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But viewing Myra placed apart,<br>I fear, says she, I fear,<br>Appelles, that Sir Godfrey's art<br>Has far surpass'd thine here:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or I, a goddess of the skies,<br>By Mary am undone,<br>And must resign to her the prize,<br>The apple, which I won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But soon as she had Myra seen,<br>Majestically fair,<br>The sparkling eye, the look serene,<br>The gay and easy air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With fiery emulation fill'd<br>The wondering goddess cried,<br>Apelles must to Kneller yield,<br>Or Venus must to Hyde.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457215" data-title="The Judgement Of Venus de Matthew Prior" data-description="When Kneller's works, of various grace, Were to fair Venus shown, The Goddess spied in every face Some features of her own. Just so, (and pointing with her hand) So shone, says she, my eyes, When from two goddesses I gain'd An apple for a prize...."></div> </div> </div>

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