Date: 1796
"E'en they th' impressive dart of love can feel, / Whose stubborn souls are sheath'd in triple steel."
preview | full record— Falconer, William (bap. 1732, d. 1770)
Date: 1805
"Touched with my care, my tyrant may prove kind, / Nor let that form conceal an iron mind."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1805
"The Saxon saw, advanced, nor looked behind, / Fate hurried on, and courage steel'd his mind."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1805
"When Courage, through the Scottish ranks confessed, / With his immortal steel incased each breast."
preview | full record— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)
Date: 1806
"And now, cold horror trembles o'er my soul, / When thou in blank uncertainty array'd, / With iron-hearted deaf control / Throw'st all around thy awful, dubious shade"
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
Date: 1807
"No, no; fear, hatred, envy, all have steeled / The heart of England's Queen."
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: 1807
"Miscreant! thy words, far from appalling me / With the full marshalled horrors of this day, / They steel my heart"
preview | full record— Graham, James (1765-1811)
Date: [1805?] 1810, 1812, 1818
"Where bloody Butler's iron-hearted crew, / Doomed to the flames the weak submitting few"
preview | full record— Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)
Date: 1859
"(For sure thy sire had not a heart of steel)"
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1891
"Yet in his stern creed lay a tender heart, / The husk o'erlaid a wealth of human kindness / And love, that fain their wisdom would impart / To purge the young soul of its earthly blindness"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)