"Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast"
— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by C. Roworth, for T. Egerton [etc.]
Date
1801
Metaphor
"Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast"
Metaphor in Context
"When, by resentment urg'd or mov'd by hate,
"He sought some rival Chieftain to molest,
"Forth rush'd his deadly ministers of fate.
"Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast;
"Disdaining perils, negligent of rest,
"With fix'd resolve their purpose they pursued,
"Nor ceas'd their foul enthusiastic quest,
"'Till o'er their victim's prostrate corse they stood,
"And stamp'd their tyrant's law in characters of blood.
"He sought some rival Chieftain to molest,
"Forth rush'd his deadly ministers of fate.
"Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast;
"Disdaining perils, negligent of rest,
"With fix'd resolve their purpose they pursued,
"Nor ceas'd their foul enthusiastic quest,
"'Till o'er their victim's prostrate corse they stood,
"And stamp'd their tyrant's law in characters of blood.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/13/2005
