Read full poem →About the Spring, and how my cough,
In finer weather, would leave off.
I saw it all, and told him plain
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Poetry examples for “leave off”
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Read full poem →Well taught from seven to seventeen,
If, married, you may not leave off,
And say, at last, 'I'm good enough!'
Read full poem →Lay down thine own beneath a Woman's Foot,
Leave off such doing in the Name of God,
Nor bring thy Father weeping to the Ground;
Read full poem →"Brave Galuppi! that was music! good alike at grave and gay!
I can always leave off talking when I hear a master play!"
Read full poem →Ere you open your eyes in the city, the blessed church-bells begin;
No sooner the bells leave off than the diligence rattles in;
You get the pick of the news, and it costs you never a pin. 40
Read full poem →When supper's on the table, and we'll see
If I can leave off burying the white
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree
Read full poem →So much lament his slaughter'd son.
5 Leave off, at length, these woman's sighs,
Augustus' numerous trophies sing;
Read full poem →So much lament his slaughter'd son.
5 Leave off, at length, these woman's sighs,
Augustus' numerous trophies sing;
Read full poem →Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow; I leave off therefore,
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Read full poem →And the dews of night arise;
Come, come, leave off play, and let us away,
Till the morning appears in the skies."