The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers.
Alan Watkins, quoting Macmillan, in ‘Observer’ 22 February 1981.
Even Mr Gladstone only had a suitcase named after him.
On opening a building at Pembroke College, Oxford, which had been given his name; attributed
1.33 Leonard MacNally 1752-1820
This lass so neat, with smiles so sweet,
Has won my right good-will,
I’d crowns resign to call thee mine,
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill.
‘The Lass of Richmond Hill’; also attributed to W. Upton in The Oxford Song Book, and to W. Hudson in S.
Baring-Gould English Minstrelsie (1895) vol. 3
1.34 Louis MacNeice 1907-63
Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.
‘Autumn Journal’ (1939) p. 49
It’s no go the merrygoround, it’s no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
‘Bagpipe Music’ (1938)
It’s no go the picture palace, it’s no go the stadium,
It’s no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums,
It’s no go the Government grants, it’s no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.
‘Bagpipe Music’ (1938)
It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet;
Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.
The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.
‘Bagpipe Music’ (1938)
And under the totem poles—the ancient terror—
Between the enormous fluted Ionic columns
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees.
‘The British Museum Reading Room’ (1941)
Crumbling between the fingers, under the feet,
Crumbling behind the eyes,
Their world gives way and dies
And something twangs and breaks at the end of the street.
‘Dèbâcle’ (1941)
Time was away and somewhere else,