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ON FLAXMAN'S [STATUE OF] PENELOPE by WILLIAM COWPER

Poet Analysis

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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