Read full poem →And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.
Oh, I shall be stiff and cold
Dictionary Entry
To abandon.
In a Sentence
“How could you leave me behind like that?”
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Poetry examples for “leave behind”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →We leave behind pale traces of achievement:
Fires that we kindled but were too tired to put out,
Read full poem →Still, we seek the light we know,
And the dead we leave behind us.
Read full poem →We leave behind pale traces of achievement:
Fires that we kindled but were too tired to put out,
Read full poem →We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;--
Read full poem →_Elsie._ O my Lord!
Would I could leave behind me upon earth
Some monument to thy glory, such as this!
Read full poem →Of the Northwest wind, Keewaydin.
But these guests I leave behind me,
In your watch and ward I leave them;
Read full poem →We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Read full poem →They rend the world, resistless, where they pass,
And mighty marks of mischief leave behind;
Such is the rage of their tempestuous kind.
Read full poem →Even so we leave behind,
As, chartered by some unknown Powers,