Poetry in Short Stories

[FormerAlvan2]

What short story (Title, author, etc.) contains the poem "Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the one who buys the beef?"

What short story (usual information, please) contains "There was a man upon the stair, a little man who wan't there?"

Last one -- "Clay lies still, but blood's a rover, breaths a ware that will not keep." (Yes, I know it's from "Shropshire Lad" by A. E. Housman. Who used it as a theme for a short SF story?)

 

[Hobbit]

The Burke and Hare murders are referenced in Robert Louis Stevenson's short story, "The Body Snatcher" from 1884, which portrays two doctors in Robert Knox's employ responsible for buying the corpses from the killers.

Blood's a Rover was part of Harlan Ellison's output: LINK.

M.

 

[FormerAlvan2]

Thanks for your help -- not quite what I wanted

Thanks for your response.

I knew about Burke/Hare/Knox and the story behind them. And the "bloods a rover" response isn't what I was looking for either. The Harlan Ellison was published after the stories that I am looking for.

As I recall, the lines I remember would have been in SF short stories published (or collected and published) between 1954 and 1961.

For each of these, what I remember is that the lines quoted were not the title of the story, but were used as sort of a heading to the story to set the theme or the mood. They might have appeared just under the title.

The Burke and Hare murders are referenced in Robert Louis Stevenson's short story, "The Body Snatcher" from 1884, which portrays two doctors in Robert Knox's employ responsible for buying the corpses from the killers.

Blood's a Rover was part of Harlan Ellison's output: LINK.

M.