"Bid the dark Furies all thy bosom steel, / And Cumberland afresh thine anger feel."

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Evans
Date
1791
Metaphor
"Bid the dark Furies all thy bosom steel, / And Cumberland afresh thine anger feel."
Metaphor in Context
Rouse! and let 'Richard be himself again!'--
Forge, forge anew Oppression's galling chain;
Strip o'er his ears bold Opposition's skin,
And bid with gags the mouth of Freedom grin.
Bid the dark Furies all thy bosom steel,
And Cumberland afresh thine anger feel:

Yes, yes, of Cumberland the comet, blaze,
And, crab-like, roast her rascals with thy rays.
Stretch o'er the shrinking towns thine arm of pow'r,
And, hydra-like, their croaking frogs devour.
Show that thy breath, like Envy's, baleful blows:
A canker be, that kills the lovely rose.
Prove how a rising country can be curst,
And bid with spleen old Nero's spectre burst.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "bosom" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1791, 1792).

A Commiserating Epistle to James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale and Lowther, Lord Lieut. and Cust. Rot. of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. By Peter Pindar, Esq. (London: Printed for J. Evans, 1791). <Link to ECCO>

Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
Date of Entry
06/13/2005

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