Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)

The history of The Old Testament In verse: With One Hundred and Eighty sculptures: In Two Volumes. Vol. I. From the Creation to the Revolt of the Ten Tribes from the House of David. Vol. II. From that Revolt to the End of the Prophets. Written by Samuel Wesley ... The Cuts done by J. Sturt

London

Printed for Benj. Cowse and John Hooke [etc.]

1715

"He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent"

No Threatnings make the wayward King relent,
He Steels his Heart, unknowing to repent:
When, see the must'ring angry Storms on high!
Behold the ruddy Vengeance streak the Skie!
The disembowel'd Clouds discharge their store,
File off in haste, and still make room for more;
Whence Fire and Hail in Ruin reconcil'd,
Swept the sad Earth, the future Harvest spoil'd:
Amazing Thunders thro' the Welkin drive,
As the vast Crystal Orb itself wou'd rive.
The Trees no more their leavy Honours wear,
Like broken Arms their shiver'd Boughs appear:
Tall Pyramids their Airy Summits shake,
Deep fix'd in Earth their broad Foundations quake:
No mortal Force the Tempest cou'd sustain,
But Beasts, and Trees, and Men, lie scatter'd o'r the Plain.

Mineral::Steel

Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)

06/09/2005