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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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"Fetters"
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"Fire"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"The Fatal Kiss, a Poem"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Date: 1781
"When love is fetter'd, all is fire, / And tender passion soon decays; / Like those sweet birds which soon expire, / When we wou'd force their tuneful lays."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)