"'Then first with the seducing Cup / 'I tried to steel my Breast, / 'To keep expiring Courage up"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)


Place of Publication
Liverpool
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Date
1804
Metaphor
"'Then first with the seducing Cup / 'I tried to steel my Breast, / 'To keep expiring Courage up"
Metaphor in Context
"Then first I felt the odious Task
"My roving Prey to chace,
"The Terrors of my Mind to mask,
"And mend a fading Face;
"Then first with the seducing Cup
"I tried to steel my Breast,
"To keep expiring Courage u
p,
"And lull Dispair to rest.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Crabbe, George. New Poems by George Crabbe. Ed. Arthur Pollard. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1960.
Date of Entry
06/13/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.