Poem by William Cowper

On Flaxman's Penelope

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. 

1. No Sorrow Peculiar to the Sufferer
2. Denner's Old Woman
3. A Figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love
4. By Philemon
5. The New Convert

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