Read full poem →Cancels not that we did; what’s done remains—
I am my brother’s murderer. Woe to me!
Abel is dead. No prayers to empty heaven,
Dictionary Entry
A person who commits murder.
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Poetry examples for “murderer”
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Read full poem →To greet his lordship with a poniard,
And none so much as blame the murderer,
270 But rather praise him for that brave attempt,
Read full poem →There was a crow who was no sleeper,
But a thief and a murderer
Till a very late hour; and this keeper
Read full poem →Or, if it have, let my word work on me,
And a just office on a murderer do.
Except it be too late, to kill me so,
Read full poem →Upon a scaffold high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
Read full poem →Thou subtle thief, from whom nought safe can be!
Thou murderer, which hast kill'd; and devil, which would'st damn me!