Famous Cold Blood Poems by Famous Poets

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Elegy to the Memory of Werter

...beam the love-lorn maid,
Led by soft SYMPATHY, shall stroll along;
Oft shall she listen in the Lime-tree's * shade,
Her cold blood freezing at the night-owl's song:
Or, when she hears the death-bell's solemn sound,
Her light steps echoing o'er the hollow ground;
Oft shall the trickling tear adorn her cheek,
Thy pow'r, O SENSIBILITY ! in magic charms to speak! 

For the poor PILGRIM, doom'd afar to roam
From the dear comforts of his native home,
A glitt'ring star puts forth a ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby


Song of Myself

...one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, 
The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo;) 
’Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young
 men. 

Retreating, they had form’d in a hollow square, with their baggage for
 breastworks;
Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy’s, nine times their number,
 was the price they took in advance; 
Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone; 
They treated for an honorable capitulation, rec...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Last Berkshire Eleven

...ors of that day,
When I think of so many innocent lives that were taken away;
Alas! the British force were massacred in cold blood,
And their blood ran like a little rivulet in full flood. 

And the Ghazis were afraid to encounter that gallant little band
At the charge of the bayonet : Oh! the scene was most grand;
And the noble and heroic eleven fought on without dismay,
Until the last man in the arms of death stiff and stark lay....Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

To Beethoven

...In o'er-strict calyx lingering,
Lay music's bud too long unblown,
Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring:
Then bloomed the perfect rose of tone.

O Psalmist of the weak, the strong,
O Troubadour of love and strife,
Co-Litanist of right and wrong,
Sole Hymner of the whole of life,

I know not how, I care not why, --
Thy music sets my world at ease,
And m...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

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