William Bouguereau Charity painting

William Bouguereau Charity painting
William Bouguereau Little Thieves painting
Arthur Hughes April Love painting
bays the stranger groom: so wrath compress'd
Recoiling, mutter'd thunder in his breast.
"Poor, suffering heart", he cried, "support the pain
Of wounded honour and thy rage restrain!
Not fiercer woes thy fortitude could foil
When the brave partners of thy ten-year toil
Dire Polypheme devoured: I then was freed
By patient prudence from the death decreed."
"For 'Polypheme' read Tiberius'," he explained. Then he clapped his hands for the Guard, who came running up at the double. "Send Cassius Chserea here at once!" Cassius was sent for and Caligula said: "Cassius, old hero, you who acted as my war-horse when I was a child, my oldest and most faithful family-friend, did you ever see such a sad and degrading sight as this? My two sisters prostituting their bodies to senators in my very Palace, my uncle Claudius standing at the gate selling tickets of admission! Oh, what would my poor mother and father have said if they had lived to see this