Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893

"Weeping at the threshold of Existence I will steel my heart / Against thee to Eternity & never recieve thee more"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

Date: 1808

"Judge not the Man by his exterior part: / Virtue's strong root in every soil will grow, / Rich ores lie buried under piles of snow"

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1808

"Are these not ills enow?--must rage, and hate, / And strife, and uproar join in discord wild, / Steel the relentless heart, and spurn affections mild?"

— MacNeill, Hector (1746-1818)

Date: 1809

"Manhood, Shame, / And sense of Folly--all conspire, / To steel their Hearts, and rouse their Fire, / And vindicate their Honour's claim"

— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)

Date: [1805?] 1810, 1812, 1818

"Where bloody Butler's iron-hearted crew, / Doomed to the flames the weak submitting few"

— Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)

Date: 1810

"As pliant hands in shapes refin'd / Rich iv'ry carve and smooth, / His laws thus mould each ductile mind, / And ev'ry passion soothe"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)

Date: 1810

"As gems are taught by patient art / In sparkling ranks to beam, / With manners thus he forms the heart, / And spreads a gen'ral gleam"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)

Date: 1810

The poor live "'midst luxury, wanting daily bread: / While hard unfeeling instruments of state, / With iron bosoms aggravate their fate"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1810

"The fiend, consistent, who had steeled all hearts / Against their feeling for ingenuous arts,"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1810

"But I thank the hard steel that environs my heart; / The steel that has grown, by salabrious time, / Who corrects the wild ardour of love, and of rhyme:"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)