Date: 1728

Death is an "iron-hearted, and of cruel soul, / Brasen his breast, nor can he brook controul, / To whom, and ne'er return, all mortals go, / And even to immortal gods a foe"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1728, 1740

"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1749

"When she, with all the Magnet's Pow'r, / Draws to her sweet enchanting Bow'r / Heroic Souls, and Hearts of Steel."

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1753

"When Flora sweeps the Table with a Vole, / What Breast so steel'd as Grief can not invade, / To see the Havock on her Beautys made!"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1755

"Malice away, with all her Scorpions, creeps, / And Marius, iron-hearted Marius, weeps."

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1756

"A war of passions in their breasts they feel / As the muse fires, who have not hearts of Steel."

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)