Awayand Quotes
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If thou would'st have me sing and playAs once I play'd and sung,First take this time-worn lute away,And bring one freshly strung.
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More Awayand Quotes
Time was awayand somewhere else.
— 1939 'Meeting Point'. Collected in Collected Poems1925-1948 (1949).
And when We bless man, he turns awayand withdraws aside; but when evil visits him, he is full of endless prayers.
The Koran— Sura 41, l.51.
My silks and fine array,My smiles and languished air,By love are driv'n away;And mournful lean DespairBrings me yew to deck my grave:Such end true lovers have.
william blake— Song (My Silks and Fine Arrays), st. 1
Still, as I mused, the naked room,The alien firelight died away;And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright, unclouded day.
emily brontë— Stanza vi.
Curse away!And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverbThe Arabs have,—"Curses are like young chickens,And still come home to roost."
edward bulwer-lytton— The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act v, Scene ii.
Fame and fortune is a magnet.It can pull you far away from homeWith a dream in your heart you're never alone.Dreams turn into dust and blow awayand there you are without a friend
Hal David— Song Do You Know the Way to San Jose
When you're stoned, baby, I am drunk.And we make love, it seems a little desolateIt's hard sometimes not to look awayand think what's the point when I'm having to hold this fire downI think I'll explode if I can't feel this freely now. When your stalled baby take me home.
dido— Stoned
I have had worse partings, but none that soGnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughlySaying what God alone could perfectly show —How selfhood begins with a walking away,And Jove is proved in the letting go.
cecil day lewis— "Walking Away" (1962), p. 33
