Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

-Aquinas, StThomas
  Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

   Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood. One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Stanzas in Memory of the  Author of ''Obermann''', l.93^6.

'Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid, Edward, Edward, Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid, And why sae sad gang ye O?'

-Ballads
'Edward', opening lines.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

-Belasco, David stagename of  David Valasco
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Imaginethepositionofthemodernarchitect.Picturethe young fellow to be put into a 'profession' because trade is considered beneath him (another antiquarian prejudice).The young fellow hasn't exactly got a legal mind, like father; he's not much good at essays, so he can't write; he faints at the sight of blood so can't be a doctor. What isthere for him to do? Architecture of course.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  First and Last Loves.

Politics is a blood sport.

-Bevan, Aneurin
Quoted in  Jennie Lee My Life with Nye (1980).

And the L said unto Cain,Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said,What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 4:9.

At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 9:5^6.

In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me,O mine enemy?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 21:19^20.

So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:33.

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave ittothe disciples, and said,Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 26:26^8.

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John19:34.

Without shedding of blood is no remission.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews 9:22.

The great questions of our day cannot be solved by speeches and majority votes but by iron and blood.

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  Speech to the Prussian Chamber, 30 Sep. He later altered the concluding words to the more commonly quoted'blood and iron'.

OAutumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

-Blake,William
  Poetical Sketches,'To  Autumn'.

   We do not presume to come to this thyTable,O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies.We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thyTable.But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Holy Communion, Prayer of Humble  Access.

   The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life: Drink this in remembrance that Christ's Blood was shed for thee, and be thankful.

-Book of Common Prayer
Holy Communion.

As for the grass, it grewas scant as hair in leprosyöthin dried blades pricked the mud which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, stood stupefied.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi'murder crusted.

-Burns, Robert
  'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

   Never under the most despotic of infidel Governments did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return, in the very heart of a Christian country. And what are your remedies? After months of inaction, and months of action worse than inactivity, at length comes forth the grand specificöthe never-failing nostrum of all state physicians from the days of Draco to the present time; death. Is there not blood enough upon your penal code that more must be poured forth to ascend to Heaven and testify against you?

-Rochdale
  Maiden speech, House of Lords, 27 Feb, against a proposal to introduce the death penalty for machine- wrecking.