Read full poem →So I shall live on and on. Just a good woman. With nothing to warm my heart
where he lay, and where he left his baby for me to care for. I shall not be
Dictionary Entry
To survive solely by consuming a certain thing.
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“When he was in the rainforest, he lived on bugs and rainwater.”
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Poetry examples for “live on”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →‘« And what you bring won’t do for dress ;
‘« And so you'll live on Bye-and-bye, é
‘« With oaten-cake and water-cress !” :
Read full poem →That I, more sorry now than I was then,
May live on to be sorry for his ghost.
Read full poem →And how 'twas impossible, quite dispossessed,
To live on for the rest."
Read full poem →will die of starvation in spring or summer. But we
shall live, for we live on the bark of trees, our smallest
persons find their food in the gum of trees, and the
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher's Tragi-Comedy 'The Fair Maid of the Inn'byJohn Keats
Read full poem →Thus ye live on high, and then
On the earth ye live again;
Read full poem →Apology to Jessica North...
Why Live On Written Words?..
THE POETS OF PALMS
Read full poem →Said the Raven, "If I taste it
Once, the Salt I have to live on
May for ever turn to Loathing;
Read full poem →I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Read full poem →If the life was the question, a thing sent to try
And to live on be YES; what can NO be ? to die.