"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Baldwin
Date
1714
Metaphor
"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
Metaphor in Context
What iron Breast so hard that can endure
To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?
Or dare to violate, with Hands impure,
A Nymph so full of curteous Complacence?
O may the righteous Gods, that recompense
With Vengeance due the Guilt of Sinners foul,
Dart Thunder at their Heads of Wrath incense!
May flashing Clouds with forked Lightning scowl,
While Fiends and Hell-born Furies round the Miscreants howle!
To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?
Or dare to violate, with Hands impure,
A Nymph so full of curteous Complacence?
O may the righteous Gods, that recompense
With Vengeance due the Guilt of Sinners foul,
Dart Thunder at their Heads of Wrath incense!
May flashing Clouds with forked Lightning scowl,
While Fiends and Hell-born Furies round the Miscreants howle!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "iron" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/08/2005
