Read full poem →The tone, moreover, of the stanza quoted above suggests that it was
no vulgar libel on Elizabeth which Donne contemplated. Elizabeth, the
cruel persecutor of his Catholic kinsfolk, now stained with the blood
Dictionary Entry
A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
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. libelsuit libelaction libelagainst libelsuits libellibel seditiouslibel criminallibel blood
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Poetry examples for “libel”
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Read full poem →precipitated. It would be a sort of irreligion, and scarcely less than
a libel on human nature to believe, that there is any established and
reputable profession or employment, in which a man may not continue to