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for ever

(duration) forever.

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Poetry examples for “for ever”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

I shall have lived a little while
Before I die for ever.

Across the country blown
We two face on for ever,
But not we two alone.

Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,

And lie there with your leaden lover
For ever and a day."

If young hearts were not so clever,
Oh, they would be young for ever:
Think no more; 'tis only thinking

This boundless will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.

The Smiles and Loves had died in Voiture's death,
But that for ever in his lines they breathe.

Each pleasing Blount shall endless smiles bestow,
And soft Belinda's blush for ever glow.

From the dear man unwilling she must sever,
Yet takes one kiss before she parts for ever:
Thus from the world fair Zephalinda flew,

But fix'd his word, his saving power remains;
Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns!