 And notice curious items about life! I step into my heart and there I meet A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street, And squelch the passers flat against the wall ; If the whole world was a cake he had the...  The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly1894Snippet view - About this book
 | John Davidson - 1924 - 184 pages
...If the whole world was a cake he had the power to take, He would take it, ask for more, and eat them all. And I meet a sort of simpleton beside, The kind...that life is always giving beans ; With thirty bob a week to keep a bride He fell in love and married in his teens: At thirty bob he stuck; but he knows... | |
 | John Davidson - English literature - 1894 - 152 pages
...curious items about life. I step into my heart and there I meet A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,...beside, The kind that life is always giving beans; At thirty bob he stuck; but he knows it isn't luck: He knows the seas are deeper than tureens. And... | |
 | John Davidson - 1894 - 168 pages
...curious items about life. I step into my heart and there I meet A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,...beside, The kind that life is always giving beans; At thirty bob he stuck; but he knows it isn't luck: He knows the seas are deeper than tureens. And... | |
 | John Davidson - Ballads, English - 1895 - 168 pages
...curious items about life. I step into my heart and there I meet A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,...that life is always giving beans ; With thirty bob a week to keep a bride He fell in love and married in his teens : At thirty bob he stuck; but he knows... | |
 | John Davidson - 1898 - 150 pages
...curious items about life. I step into my heart and there I meet A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,...that life is always giving beans ; With thirty bob a week to keep a bride He fell in love and married in his teens : At thirty bob he stuck; but he knows... | |
 | John Davidson - Heaven - 1904 - 238 pages
...If the whole world was a cake he had the power to take, He would take it, ask for more, and eat them all. And I meet a sort of simpleton beside, The kind...that life is always giving beans; With thirty bob a week to keep a bride He fell in love and married in his teens: At thirty bob he stuck; but he knows... | |
 | John Davidson - 1924 - 184 pages
...curious items about life. I step into my heart and there I meet A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,...power to take, He would take it, ask for more, and eat them all. And I meet a sort of simpleton beside, The kind that life is always giving beans; With thirty... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street, And squeleh the passers flat against the wall; If the whole world...beside. The kind that life is always giving beans; 50 With thirty bob a week to keep a bride He fell in love and married in his teens: At thirty bob he... | |
 | Hilary Mantel - Fiction - 1997 - 260 pages
...repeating blip in my cells: I step into my heart and there I meet A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,...take, He would take it, ask for more, and eat it all. One morning in the autumn, when I was eight, I went on to Curzon Street and there wasn't Karina: not... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 608 pages
...Immortal Part, 11. 29-36] I step into my heart and there I meet A god-almighty devil singing small, Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,...that life is always giving beans; With thirty bob a week to keep a bride He fell in love and married in his teens: At thirty bob he stuck; but he knows... | |
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