"Disdaining even the thought of flight or fear, / His life, his soul, by steady valor steel'd."
— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies [etc.]
Date
1795
Metaphor
"Disdaining even the thought of flight or fear, / His life, his soul, by steady valor steel'd."
Metaphor in Context
Disdaining even the thought of flight or fear,
His life, his soul, by steady valor steel'd,
He calls to glorious death the lagging rear;
Such is the hero of the martial field.
His life, his soul, by steady valor steel'd,
He calls to glorious death the lagging rear;
Such is the hero of the martial field.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/12/2005
