Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet.
Category: Cymon and Iphigenia
Cymon and Iphigenia is an oil on canvas painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton. The painting does not bear a date but was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1884. The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, purchased it from Christie's in London during 1976.
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
He trudg’d along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
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She hugg’d the offender, and forgave the offence:
Sex to the last.