They’ve pretty faces yet, those same Venetians

They’ve pretty faces yet, those same Venetians,
Black-eyes, arch’d brows, and sweet expressions still;
Such as of old were copied from the Grecians,
In ancient arts by moderns mimick’d ill;

And like so many Venuses of Titian’s
(The best’s at Florence — see it, if ye will),
They look when leaning over the balcony,
Or stepp’d from out a picture by Giorgione,

 

Poèmes

Lord Byron