First Line: CAN ALL THE WREATHS THAT CROWN HIS HEAD Last Line: TO BE AS MUCH RENOWNED AS HE? / I WOULD IN SOOTH 'TWERE OFFERED ME Subject(s): HOMER (10TH CENTURY B.C.);POETRY & POETS; ILIAD;ODYSSEY;
CAN all the wreaths that crown his head Compensate now to Homer dead The living Homer's want of bread? Yet who would not a beggar be To be as much renowned as he? I would in sooth 't were offered me.
