All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

I was a long bodice partly sewn to a skirt, a hem picking / up everything

The balance of passion and poise is a constant tension in Davis's work - PN Review

Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...

pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

Spilt is that liquor, my too hasty hand threw down the cup, and did not understand. - Amy Lowell 'A Blockhead'

Anonymous is a well-known and prolific poet.

My true-love hath my heart and I have his. - Philip Sidney 'Song From Arcadia'

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. - Ben Jonson 'Song To Celia'

His poetry is what all poetry should be, the surprising and beautiful organisation of things that life has disorganised. John Fuller