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

How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we're shown? -- 'The Badgers,' Seamus Heaney

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

The last English modernist ? Guardian

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

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

the irresistible clarity of images [are] so right they deliver an almost physical connection, joining poem and reader as her swifts do, 'fluid, / workmanlike, fixing rips in the sky'. ? Sarah Crown, Guardian

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, the rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. - G.K. Chesterton 'The Rolling English Road'

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

A frail, dead, new-born lamb, ghostly and pitiful and white a blot upon the night, the moon's dropped child! - Charlotte Mew, 'Fame'

While he is at rest, I am cursed still to live:- even Death loved him the best. - Adelaide Anne Procter 'Envy'

And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. - Walt Whitman 'Dirge For Two Veterans'