"'Then first with the seducing Cup / 'I tried to steel my Breast, / 'To keep expiring Courage up"
— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Author
Work Title
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 up,
"And lull Dispair to rest.
"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 up,
"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