Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer
The Training of Jimmy McBride, third stanza
The Passing Throng (1923)
Mother to her young son, Act 1
The Flies (1943)
Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer
The Training of Jimmy McBride, third stanza
The Passing Throng (1923)
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Farewell Address, (4 March 1837), recalling what, by then, had reached the status of a proverb.
1830s
Forest Whitaker (1961) American actor
To Webster Hall curator Baird Jones, reported in the New York Post (11 December 1999); quoted in “Forest Whitaker,” in Hollywood.com http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/forest-whitaker-57300206/.
“I am a Widow's Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed”
Ned Kelly (1855–1880) Australian bushranger
Jerilderie Letter (1879)
Context: Neglect this and abide by the consequences, which shall be worse than the rust in the wheat of Victoria or the druth of a dry season to the grasshoppers in New South Wales I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning, but I am a Widow's Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.
“Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been, my darling young one?”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Compare: "O where ha' you been, Lord Randal, my son? And where ha' you been, my handsome young man?" Lord Randall, no. 12.
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall