WHO shall paint Anger in his furious form?
The gloomy frown, the flashing of the storm,
The violence that overleaps all bound,
To blast, o’erthrow, to ruin and confound?
By nature fram’d susceptible, and weak,
His quick approach stains o’er the conscious cheek;
The bubble injury through each vein flies,
And echoes, Anger, all thy flaming sighs!
Then keen contempt will rouse the breast to ire,
Will fan, when half extinguish’d, Anger’s fire;
O’er healing wounds her venom’d arrows glide,
And bring fierce rage in all her swelling pride.
Can nought allay this tumult of the brain,
When dragg’d, ye fiends, in your resistless chain?
When all the passions hurried into day,
To black despair have hurl’d thy trembling prey?
Yes! through the gloom this cheering ray will dart,
Though Anger boils obdurate in the heart,
If to the heavens he turn the flaming eye,
And view the blushes of the western sky;
Soon will his bosom calm each racking throw,
And hail, composure, thy serenest glow:
For ah! when golden Phoebus sinks to rest,
Shall Anger still unslumb’ring burn the breast?
(Emma Lyon)
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