English poem
On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer.
Cowper had sinn'd with some excuse, If, bound in rhyming tethers, He had committed this abuse Of changing ewes for wethers; But, male for female is a trope, Or rather bold misnomer, That would have startled even Pope, When he translated Homer.
More by William Cowper
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