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Date: 1791

"Thou hast an iron heart! / For should that savage man and faithless once / Seize and discover thee, no pity expect / Or reverence at his hands"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1791

"Thou hast an heart of iron, terrour-proof."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1791

"I will encounter him, though his hands be fire, / Though fire his hands, and his heart hammer'd steel."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1791

"Thy heart is steel"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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