Dictionary Entry

bloodless

Part of SpeechadjectiveUsed In Literature ↓

Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.

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Poetry examples for “bloodless”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And overhead strange weathers burn and bite;
And where the red was, lo the bloodless white,
And where the truth was, the likeness of a liar,

And makes me frantic for my Gaveston.
Ah, had some bloodless Fury rose from hell, 315
And with my kingly sceptre struck me dead,

How bloodless books, how pulseless art,
Vain kingly and imperial zeal,

Wherein no shaft of sunlight ever fell,
And in among the bloodless everywhere
I sought her, but the air,

Bearing a banner whereon is scored
The milk and steel of a bloodless wound
Healed at length by the sword!

I therefore go, and join head, heart, and hand,
Active and firm, to fight the bloodless fight
Of Science, Freedom, and the Truth in Christ.

"When here you walk, a bloodless shade,
A singer all men else forget.

A fog follows—antiques of the same come limping,
Some appear wooden-legged, and some appear bandaged and bloodless.