stay quotes

   Stay, Frederic, stay! Nay, Mabel, nay!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Mabel and Frederic's duet, The Pirates of Penzance, act 2.

Love shall come at your command Yet will not stay.

- Robert von Ranke Graves
  'Song of Contrariety'.

Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

- Ralph Hodgson
  'Time,You Old Gipsy Man'.

I face the prospect of another campaign like an open- ended stay in a concentration camp.

- Claudia AltaTaylor known as Lady Bird Johnson
  A White House Diary.

For thou wert still the poor man's stay, The poor man's heart, the poor man's hand; And all the oppressed, who wanted strength, Had thine at their command.

-William Wordsworth
  'Rob Roy's Grave', l.109^12 (published1807).