"Authority! unfeeling power, / Whose iron heart can coldly doom / The Debtor, dragg'd from Pleasure's bower, / To sicken in the dungeon's gloom."
— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell
Date
1780, 1788
Metaphor
"Authority! unfeeling power, / Whose iron heart can coldly doom / The Debtor, dragg'd from Pleasure's bower, / To sicken in the dungeon's gloom."
Metaphor in Context
Authority! unfeeling power,
Whose iron heart can coldly doom
The Debtor, dragg'd from Pleasure's bower,
To sicken in the dungeon's gloom!
O might thy terror-striking call
Profusion's sons alone enthrall!
But thou canst Want with Guilt confound;
Thy bonds the Man of virtuous toil surround,
Driven by malicious Fate within thy dreary bound.
Whose iron heart can coldly doom
The Debtor, dragg'd from Pleasure's bower,
To sicken in the dungeon's gloom!
O might thy terror-striking call
Profusion's sons alone enthrall!
But thou canst Want with Guilt confound;
Thy bonds the Man of virtuous toil surround,
Driven by malicious Fate within thy dreary bound.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "iron" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 4 entries in ESTC (1780, 1781, 1782).
See Ode Inscribed to John Howard: Esq. F.R.S. Author of "the State of English and Foreign Prisons." By William Hayley, Esq. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Searching text in Poems and Plays, By William Hayley, 6 vols., new ed. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788).
See Ode Inscribed to John Howard: Esq. F.R.S. Author of "the State of English and Foreign Prisons." By William Hayley, Esq. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Searching text in Poems and Plays, By William Hayley, 6 vols., new ed. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788).
Date of Entry
06/07/2005
