While Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings, / While quacks of State must each produce his plan, / And even children lisp the Rights of Man; / Amid this mighty fuss let me mention, / The Rights of Woman merit some attention. - ROBERT BURNS
Monday, June 10, 2013
"La Grande Odalisque "
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780-1867
[odalisque - a female slave or concubine in an Ottoman household]
The new blog - AS LONG AS IT RHYMES - is now online
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