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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON RECEIVING HEYNE'S VIRGIL FROM HAYLEY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have deemed it once an effort vain Last Line: Since I received him as a gift from thee. Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting | |||
I SHOULD have deemed it once an effort vain To sweeten more sweet Maro's matchless strain, But from that error now behold me free, Since I received him as a gift from thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOUND IN TRANSLATION [FOR CLAIRE MALROUX] by MARILYN HACKER MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION by MICHAEL S. HARPER THE MYSTERIES OF CAESAR by ANTHONY HECHT IN HELL WITH VIRG AND DAN: CANTO 17 by CAROLYN KIZER OF DISTRESS BEING HUMILIATED BY THE CLASSICAL CHINESE POETS by HAYDEN CARRUTH RELIGIO LAICI; OR, A LAYMAN'S FAITH by JOHN DRYDEN THE CHESSBOARD IS ON FIRE by AARON FOGEL ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS A TRANSLATION by JAMES LAUGHLIN A COMPARISON by WILLIAM COWPER |
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