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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON FLAXMAN'S [STATUE OF] PENELOPE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The suitors sinned, but with a fair excuse
Last Line: Who, for a wife so lovely, slew them all.
Subject(s): Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Sculpture & Sculptors
First Line: The suitors sinned, but with a fair excuse
Last Line: Who, for a wife so lovely, slew them all.
Subject(s): Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Sculpture & Sculptors
THE suitors sinned, but with a fair excuse,
Whom all this elegance might well seduce;
Nor can our censure on the husband fall,
Who, for a wife so lovely, slew them all.
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