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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. 



William Cowper


William Cowper's other poems:
  1. No Sorrow Peculiar to the Sufferer
  2. By Philemon
  3. Abuse of the Gospel
  4. The Cantab
  5. The Christian

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