Dictionary Entry

ay

Part of SpeechinterjectionPronunciation/aɪ/Used In Literature ↓

Ah! alas!

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Poetry examples for “ay”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

May will be fine next year as like as not:
Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.

Ay, yonder lads are yet
The fools that we were then;

"Ay, false heart, forsake me lightly:
'Tis like the brave.

Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;
All thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:

Ay, the horses trample,
The harness jingles now;

Ay, if dynamite and revolver leave you courage to
be wise :

And Ulfius and Brastias answer’d, ‘Ay.’
Then Bedivere, the first of all his knights

Ay, to be sewer! Be thou?

Ay, for doubtless I am old, and think gray thoughts,
for I am gray :

Zolaism,—
Forward, forward, ay and backward, downward too