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The life and posthumous writings

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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[Doom'd, as I am, in solitude to waste]
  
[The straw-stuff'd hamper with his ruthless steel]
  
[Could Homer come himself, distress'd and poor]
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[Could Homer come himself, distress'd and poor]

Could Homer come himself, distress'd and poor
And tune his harp at Rhedicina's door,
The rich old Vixen would exclaim (I fear)
“Begone! no tramper gets a farthing here.”
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