"Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel / May melt in dying, and dissolving feel."
— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Author
Date
1838
Metaphor
"Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel / May melt in dying, and dissolving feel."
Metaphor in Context
Thus he resisted, and I know not how
He could be soften'd--Is he kinder now?
Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel
May melt in dying, and dissolving feel.
He could be soften'd--Is he kinder now?
Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel
May melt in dying, and dissolving feel.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/09/2005
