"Are these not ills enow?--must rage, and hate, / And strife, and uproar join in discord wild, / Steel the relentless heart, and spurn affections mild?"
— MacNeill, Hector (1746-1818)
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Work Title
Date
1808
Metaphor
"Are these not ills enow?--must rage, and hate, / And strife, and uproar join in discord wild, / Steel the relentless heart, and spurn affections mild?"
Metaphor in Context
Ah me! encompass'd with afflictions drear!
Pain--sickness--sorrow, and disastrous fate;
The want of friendship's aid, to sooth and cheer,
And softening still the murmurs of regret;
The loss of all we loved, and prized so late,
Torn from the breast, where hope and transport smiled!--
Are these not ills enow?--must rage, and hate,
And strife, and uproar join in discord wild,
Steel the relentless heart, and spurn affections mild?
Pain--sickness--sorrow, and disastrous fate;
The want of friendship's aid, to sooth and cheer,
And softening still the murmurs of regret;
The loss of all we loved, and prized so late,
Torn from the breast, where hope and transport smiled!--
Are these not ills enow?--must rage, and hate,
And strife, and uproar join in discord wild,
Steel the relentless heart, and spurn affections mild?
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Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/10/2005
