Showing posts with label William Broome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Broome. Show all posts

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Mark the ruins

 
 
 
 
Now wasting years my former strength confound,
And added woes have bow'd me to the ground:
Yet by the stubble you may guess the grain,
And mark the ruins of no vulgar man.

-- William Broome (1689-1745), translator of parts of Homer's Odyssey for Alexander Pope