A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew (poetry reading)

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The paintings show beauty from about the same period of time
Venus Before a Mirror, 1615, by Peter Paul Rubens
The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez

Fashions in beauty change over the centuries. These days the models for the Three Graces wouldn't find a job displaying their ample curves, they would all be seeking bariatric surgery.

Any of the beauties of the movies of fifty years ago, even Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, would never get a job in films - and they would also be tweeted so harshly they'd be scared to appear in public. It's a funny old world, when the present generation hates what the past generation adored.

In Nature's pieces still I see
Some error that might mended be;
Something my wish could still remove,
Alter or add; but my fair love
Was fram'd by hands far more divine,
For she hath every beauteous line:

Yet I had been far happier,
Had Nature, that made me, made her.

Then likeness might (that love creates)
Have made her love what now she hates;
Yet I confess I cannot spare
From her just shape the smallest hair;
Nor need I beg from all the store
Of heaven for her one beauty more.

She hath too much divinity for me:
You gods, teach her some more humanity.

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