Reference > Quotations > The Columbia World of Quotations
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:45991
QUOTATION:God have mercy on the sinner
Who must write with no dinner,

No gravy and no grub,
No pewter and no pub.

No belly and no bowels,
Only consonants and vowels.
ATTRIBUTION:John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), U.S. poet. Survey of Literature (l. 23–28). . .

Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press.

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com