Read full poem →But what should you go for, oh, snowman, oh, snowman?
And why would you leave us, when home lies at hand?
Dictionary Entry
(modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.
In a Sentence
“I hope that we shall win the game.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
take shouldnever shouldshould whyshould there
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Poetry examples for “should”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover’s sorrow;
Read full poem →Night should ease a lover’s sorrow;
Read full poem →"Oh loud, my girl, it once would knock,
You should have felt it then;
But since for you I stopped the clock
Read full poem →With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at morning
And lief lie down of nights.
Read full poem →Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Read full poem →He did not plague his fancy
To muse if I should be
The son you see.
Read full poem →You shot dead the household traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
Read full poem →Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly:
Why should men make haste to die?
Empty heads and tongues a-talking