Read full poem →If in the pomp of life consist the joy;
Then hire a slave, or (if you will) a lord
To do the honours, and to give the word;
Dictionary Entry
Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.
In a Sentence
“But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved.”
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Poetry examples for “if you will”
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Read full poem →With color) turn’d to me with “ As you will ;
Heroic if you will, or what you will, 215
Or be yourself your hero if you will.”
Read full poem →And therefore it were wisely left untold;
Yet if you will, why, hear it to the end.
Read full poem →And therefore it were wisely left untold;
Yet if you will, why, hear it to the end.
Read full poem →And only then, if God can pardon me.
What can be told FU tell, if you will hear.
Read full poem →Terrible, if you please; but not in the least degree dangerous.
Each animal if you will take the pains to observe, is following,
very quietly, in the wake of its master. Some few, to be sure,
Read full poem →UT if you will, with Sleep’s dull knife,
Each day to half its length, my friend,—
Read full poem →Oh, bring me gifts or beg me gifts,
And wed me if you will.
I’d make a man a good wife,
Read full poem →To praise the very thing that he deplores;
So, friends (dear friends), remember, if you will,
The shame I win for singing is all mine,
Read full poem →Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will, --
But his hard, human pulse is throbbing still