"Her heart pursued spite with black intent, / Ne could her iron mind at human woes relent."
— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Work Title
Date
1751, 1774
Metaphor
"Her heart pursued spite with black intent, / Ne could her iron mind at human woes relent."
Metaphor in Context
Within the covert of a gloomy wood,
Where fun'ral cypress star-proof branches spread,
O'ergrown with tangling briers a cavern stood;
Fit place for melancholy dreary-head.
Here a deformed monster joy'd to won,
Which on fell rancour ever was ybent,
All from the rising to the setting sun,
Her heart pursued spite with black intent,
Ne could her iron mind at human woes relent.
Where fun'ral cypress star-proof branches spread,
O'ergrown with tangling briers a cavern stood;
Fit place for melancholy dreary-head.
Here a deformed monster joy'd to won,
Which on fell rancour ever was ybent,
All from the rising to the setting sun,
Her heart pursued spite with black intent,
Ne could her iron mind at human woes relent.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "iron" in HDIS (Poetry); found again "heart"
Citation
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1751, 1762, 1774, 1790, 1795). Collected in The Works of the English Poets, Bell's Fugitive Poetry, and Anderson's British Poets. See also Spenser and the Tradition.
See The Progress of Envy. A Poem, in Imitation of Spenser. Occasioned by Lauder’s Attack on the Character of Milton. Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bath. (London: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1751). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd (London: Printed for T. Evans, 1774).
See The Progress of Envy. A Poem, in Imitation of Spenser. Occasioned by Lauder’s Attack on the Character of Milton. Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bath. (London: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1751). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd (London: Printed for T. Evans, 1774).
Date of Entry
06/07/2005
