Famous John Davidson Quotes
"Thirty Bob a Week", p. 97
Ballads and Songs (1894)
Smith (Glasgow: Wilson, 1888) p. 33
"The Last Journey", from The Testament of dick peter (London: Grant Richards, 1908) p. 146
“Mere by-blows are the world and we,
And time within eternity
A sheer anachronism.”
"Queen Elizabeth's Day", from Fleet Street Eclogues (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1893] 1895) p. 198
There is a Dish to hold the Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My feet are heavy now but on I go,
My head erect beneath the tragic years.”
I felt the World a-spinning on its Nave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Unwilling friend, let not your spite abate;
Help me with scorn, and strengthen me with hate.”
"To My Enemy", p. 2
Ballads and Songs (1894)
"A Ballad of Hell", p. 85
Ballads and Songs (1894)
