Bade

Famous quotes containing the word bade:

“But if when anyone died
Came keeners hoarser than rooks,
He bade them give over their keening;
For he was a man of books.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I taught you sounds and words and soothed your complainings and your hidden hurts, and as you did crawl on the ground, I stooped and lifted you to my kisses, and lovingly on my bosom lulled to sleep your drooping eyes, and bade sweet slumber take you.”
—Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)

“Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes!
the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to
solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)