"For oh the time will come, when you shall feel / Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel"
— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Dryden Leach
Date
1767
Metaphor
"For oh the time will come, when you shall feel / Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel"
Metaphor in Context
Ah! think what you will surely know too soon,
Tho' some may laugh, none love the loose buffoon:
But of buffoons the scorn and veriest fellow,
Is the buffoon, strange monster--in prunello!
With all your might, tho' you have stretch'd your hand,
To scatter poison, and defile the land;
Yet let me once my gratulations pay,
For that your will exceeds your best essay:
I joy to praise you for your foulest sheet,
Jests most indelicate, and dearth of wit.
The time will come, when you with me shall join,
To bless the blasting of each putrid line:
For oh the time will come, when you shall feel
Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel;
When conscience loud, shall thunder in your ear,
And all your wide-spread ill in horrid form appear!
Tho' some may laugh, none love the loose buffoon:
But of buffoons the scorn and veriest fellow,
Is the buffoon, strange monster--in prunello!
With all your might, tho' you have stretch'd your hand,
To scatter poison, and defile the land;
Yet let me once my gratulations pay,
For that your will exceeds your best essay:
I joy to praise you for your foulest sheet,
Jests most indelicate, and dearth of wit.
The time will come, when you with me shall join,
To bless the blasting of each putrid line:
For oh the time will come, when you shall feel
Stabs in your heart more sharp than stabs of steel;
When conscience loud, shall thunder in your ear,
And all your wide-spread ill in horrid form appear!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
William Dodd, Poems, by Dr. Dodd (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, 1767). <Link to Google Books>
Theme
Conscience
Date of Entry
06/09/2005
