"Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel; / Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel."
— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Walthoe and J. Peele
Date
1724, 1787
Metaphor
"Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel; / Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel."
Metaphor in Context
How rugged and how void of sense was he,
Who could, to follow camps, abandon thee!
Let him pursue Cilicia's routed bands,
And pitch his tents amidst their conquer'd lands;
In gold and silver, ornaments of pride,
Conspicuous through the cohorts let him ride:
Thee feebly grasping, Delia, let me die,
And view thy beauties with my closing eye;
Then shalt thou weep, then kisses mix with tears,
When on the kindling pile my corpse appears:
Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel;
Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel.
The youths, the virgins, all shall grace my urn,
With moisten'd eyes, and weeping home return:
Disturb not thou my shade; O Delia, spare
Thy lovely cheeks, and thy dishevel'd hair.
Who could, to follow camps, abandon thee!
Let him pursue Cilicia's routed bands,
And pitch his tents amidst their conquer'd lands;
In gold and silver, ornaments of pride,
Conspicuous through the cohorts let him ride:
Thee feebly grasping, Delia, let me die,
And view thy beauties with my closing eye;
Then shalt thou weep, then kisses mix with tears,
When on the kindling pile my corpse appears:
Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel;
Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel.
The youths, the virgins, all shall grace my urn,
With moisten'd eyes, and weeping home return:
Disturb not thou my shade; O Delia, spare
Thy lovely cheeks, and thy dishevel'd hair.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 hits in ECCO and ESTC (1724, 1725, 1787).
See Epistles, Odes, &c. Written on Several Subjects. With a Translation of Longinus's Treatise on the Sublime. by Mr. Welsted. To Which Is Prefix'd, a Dissertation Concerning the Perfection of the English Language, the State of Poetry, &c. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ; and J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Pater-Noster Row, 1724). <Link to ESTC>
Found searching in The Works, in Verse and Prose, of Leonard Welsted, Esq; Some Time Clerk in Ordinary at the Office of Ordnance in the Tower of London. Now First Collected. With Historical Notes, and Biographical Memoirs of the Author, by John Nichols. (London: Printed by and for the Editor, in Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1787). <Link to ECCO>
See Epistles, Odes, &c. Written on Several Subjects. With a Translation of Longinus's Treatise on the Sublime. by Mr. Welsted. To Which Is Prefix'd, a Dissertation Concerning the Perfection of the English Language, the State of Poetry, &c. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ; and J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Pater-Noster Row, 1724). <Link to ESTC>
Found searching in The Works, in Verse and Prose, of Leonard Welsted, Esq; Some Time Clerk in Ordinary at the Office of Ordnance in the Tower of London. Now First Collected. With Historical Notes, and Biographical Memoirs of the Author, by John Nichols. (London: Printed by and for the Editor, in Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1787). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/14/2005
