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"There northern Kametzchatka's dreary strand, / And frozen Isles, your daring toils demand: / Again your British hearts of steel"

— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)

Author

Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)

Work Title

To the Immortal Memory of the Renowned Captain Cooke. Humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Keppel, First Lord Commissioner, and to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Board of Admiralty. [from The Poetical Works of the Revd. Mr. Colvill Containing his Pastorals, Occasional Poems, and Elegies on Illustrious persons. Vol. I & II]

Place of Publication

London

Publisher

Sold by J. Dodsley, A. Donaldson, W. Creech, C. Elliot &c.

Date

1789

Metaphor

"There northern Kametzchatka's dreary strand, / And frozen Isles, your daring toils demand: / Again your British hearts of steel"

Metaphor in Context

There northern Kametzchatka's dreary strand,
And frozen Isles, your daring toils demand:
Again your British hearts of steel, for see
The surly race in savage chivalry
Brandish the pond'rous club, and peal alarms,
So save their desart clime from British arms.
Their scaly cinctures cast, they raging fling
The pond'rous mass, and launch the whistling sling.