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Famous Holster Poems by Famous Poets

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...s full of blood to the brim,
And with circles of red for his eye-socket's rim.

Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall,
Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all,
Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear,
Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer;
Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good,
Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood.

And all I remember is—friends flocking round
As I sat with his head 'twi...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert



...lake!" 
 My father, moved at his speech heart-wrung, 
 Handed the orderly, downward leapt, 
 The flask of rum at the holster kept. 
 "Let him have some!" cried my father, as ran 
 The trooper o'er to the wounded man,— 
 A sort of Moor, swart, bloody and grim; 
 But just as the trooper was nearing him, 
 He lifted a pistol, with eye of flame, 
 And covered my father with murd'rous aim. 
 The hurtling slug grazed the very head, 
 And the helmet fell, pierced, streake...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor
...rely thankfu'." 

To this pitiful detail of her circumstances the villain made no reply,
But drew a pistol from his holster, and cried, "Your cow must die!"
Then riding up to the poor cow, discharged it through her head,
When the innocent animal instantly fell down dead. 

Not satisfied with this the merciless ruffian leaped the little garden wall,
And with his horse trod down everything, the poor widow's all,
Then having finished this barbarous act of direst cruelty,...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

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