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John Davidson
(1857 - 1909)
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12 poems of John Davidson
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''Seraphs and saints with one great voice
Welcomed that soul that knew not fear.
Amazed to find it could rejoice,
Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer.''
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John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. A Ballad of Hell (l. 93-96).
MoBrPo. Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) H...
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''How long she stayed I cannot tell;
But when she felt this perfidy,
She marched across the floor of hell;
And all the damned stood up to see.''
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John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. A Ballad of Hell (l. 77-80).
MoBrPo. Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) H...
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''A stag of warrant, a stag, a stag,
A runnable stag, a kingly crop,
Brow, bay and tray and three on top,
A stag, a runnable stag.''
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John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. A Runnable Stag (l. 6-9).
OxBTC. Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed....
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''Night sank: like flakes of silver fire
The stars in one great shower came down;''
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John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. In Romney Marsh (l. 21-22).
OxBTC. Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, e...
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''Masts in the offing wagged their tops;
The swinging waves pealed on the shore;
The saffron beach, all diamond drops
And beads of surge, prolonged the roar.''
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John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. In Romney Marsh (l. 13-16).
OxBTC. Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, e...
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''For like a mole I journey in the dark,
A-travelling along the underground''
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John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. Thirty Bob a Week (l. 13-14).
OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Ker...
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''But the difficultest go to understand,
And the difficultest job a man can do,
Is to come it brave and meek with thirty bob a week,
And feel that that's the proper thing for you.''
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John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. Thirty Bob a Week (l. 87-90).
OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Ker...
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