Read full poem →We thrive at Westminster on fools like you:
'Twas a fat oyster--live in peace--adieu.'
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To reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.)
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Poetry examples for “live in”
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Read full poem →From the sky, to the roots
Of this dung-hill you live in,
You half-rotted shoots
Read full poem →Would to Heaven some new ones would come and destroy these churches!
However, one can live in Rome as also in London.
It is a blessing, no doubt, to be rid, at least for a time, of
Read full poem →And my infected brain like brimstone boils;
I live in hell and several furies vex me.
Oh, carry me where never sun e'er shew*d yet
Read full poem →which Ben receiving, said, “ his majesty has sent me
“ ten guineas, because I am poor, and live in an alley ;
** go and tell him that his soul lives in an alley.”
Read full poem →Horse freed from service range abroad the woods.
And time it was for me to live in quiet,
That have so oft served pretty wenches' diet.
Read full poem →Queen. Unto the forest, gentle Mortimer,
To live in grief and baleful discontent;
For now my lord the king regards me not.
Read full poem →We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
Read full poem →inhabit the Hotel Meurice (whereas
i live in a garret and eat aspirine)
Read full poem →Be written everywhere the same?
Have all who live in every place
Identified His hidden face?