
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Robe of Christ
Source: De Profundis
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Robe of Christ
“When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}”
“Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's hand
Inflicts the blow.”
(3rd August 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the Second. Love touching the Horns of a Snail, which is shrinking from his hand.
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.
“Here sits the Unicorn;
The wounds in his side
Still bleed”
The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)
Poem Sweet in her green dell http://www.bartleby.com/101/640.html
“If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
Act III, scene xii http://books.google.com/books?id=2LQNAAAAQAAJ&q=%22If+there's+delight+in+love+tis+when+I%22+%22That+heart+which+others+bleed+for+bleed+for+me%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage
The Way of the World (1700)