And the life-blood of his heart to drink;
When his race is run,
I must hasten on,
And the young must ’neath my vengeance sink.
There is one scant reference to the subject in Shelley’s poems. Byron, in his poem The Giaour, has the following passage:—
But first on earth as vampire sent
Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race.
Dryden relates:—