A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.
I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!