Read full poem →My soul would sing forgotten jungle songs.
I would go back to darkness and to peace,
But the great western world holds me in fee,
Dictionary Entry
To return to a place after having been there at a previous time.
In a Sentence
“After lunch, we decided to go back to the museum to see the new exhibit.”
Origin
From Old English gān ‘to go’ + bæc ‘back’, literally ‘to go back’.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “go back”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →_ It might not and it should not be!
I'd go back now, and he must own,
At once, my love’s compulsive plea.
Read full poem →And all the hopeless hope that she might change
And go back with me. Ah I and everywhere^
At places we both knew along the road,
Read full poem →I shall go back again to the bleak shore
And build a little shanty on the sand,
Read full poem →IV-IX HERE IS A WOUND
IV-X I SHALL GO BACK AGAIN
IV-XI SAY WHAT YOU WILL
Read full poem →And swallows all return--
Then I’ll go back to Normandy,
The land where I was born.
Read full poem →“ What shall I do? ”
_ At last he decided to go back and get a sack and
show the turkeys something new. When he found the
Read full poem →We grub the old fern-stalks.
We say: Will we be let to go back in October?
There is no ease in royal affairs, we have no comfort.
Read full poem →Churches, Castles and Other Buildings Go Back Beyond the Dark
Ages—Lympne, Quaint and Ancient, Deeply Interests the
Read full poem →_Elsie_. Let us go back; I am afraid!