
Source: Shards of Honour
from "Reapers"
Poems from Cane (1923)
Source: Shards of Honour
“The ring was all blood-stained… so I put the ring on Jack's finger… and then I kissed his hand…”
The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)
“Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.
-"The Blood-Stained Pavement”
Source: The Thirteen Problems
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 73.
“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
On the Death of Sheridan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry