Several stanzas in this poem refer to the siege and eventual fall of Troy, as recalled in a picture once seen by the title character.  
Several stanzas in this poem refer to the siege and eventual fall of Troy, as recalled in a picture once seen by the title character.  The lines "First red as roses that on lawn we lay, Then white as lawn, the roses took away", as well as many other allusions to red, white, and roses, evoke the Wars of the Roses.   Although Collatine boasts of the title character's chastity, her "azure veins", "alabaster skin", "coral lips", and "snow-white dimpled chin" are more than enough to tempt Tarquin into committing the title act.  FTP, identify this long poem by William Shakespeare about a sex crime committed during Roman times.
Several stanzas in this poem refer to the siege and eventual fall of Troy, as recalled in a picture once seen by the title character.  
The {Rape of Lucrece}