heart's blood
English
Noun
- (literary) Alternative form of heart-blood
- 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci, London: C. & J. Ollier, Act V, Scene 4, p. 103,
- Soon the heart’s blood of all I love on earth
- Will sprinkle him, and he will wipe it off
- As if ’twere only rain.
- 1912, Robert W. Service, “The Soldier of Fortune” in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto: William Briggs, p. 24,
- “And now, my butchers, I embrace my fate.
- Come! let my heart’s blood slake the thirsty sod. […] ”
- 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci, London: C. & J. Ollier, Act V, Scene 4, p. 103,
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