|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOMER, by ANONYMOUS
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
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.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS
THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE
HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS
THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR
HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH
THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS
TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS