Arts & Sciences
On the Engraver of his Portrait (Another Translation)
Translated by William Cowper (1808) · From Latin and Italian Poems (Cowper)
Arts & Sciences
Look on myself--you will own at once
This Copy of me, taken by a Dunce.
My Friends, who gaze and guess not whom ye see,
Laugh! Would ye think it? He intended me!
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Milton, John. “On the Engraver of his Portrait (Another Translation).” Translated by William Cowper. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/milton/85/.
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Milton, John. “On the Engraver of his Portrait (Another Translation).” Translated by William Cowper. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/milton/85/.
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