"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintot ... and Arthur Bettesworth
Date
1727
Metaphor
"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
Metaphor in Context
For Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears
That haunt the Coward's Mind;
Swift she pursues the flying Wretch,
And wounds him from behind.
That haunt the Coward's Mind;
Swift she pursues the flying Wretch,
And wounds him from behind.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "haunt" and "mind" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/08/2004
