"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintot ... and Arthur Bettesworth
Date
1727
Metaphor
"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
Metaphor in Context
For Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears
  That haunt the Coward's Mind
;
Swift she pursues the flying Wretch,
  And wounds him from behind.
Provenance
Searching "haunt" and "mind" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/08/2004

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.