Bade

Famous quotes containing the word bade:

“I gave my life for freedom—this I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.”
—W.N. (William Norman)

“After which you led me to water
And bade me drink, which I did, owing to your kindness.
You would not let me out for two days and three nights,
Bringing me books bound in wild thyme and scented wild grasses
As if reading had any interest for me ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“What if I bade you leave
The cavern of the mind?
There’s better exercise
In the sunlight and wind.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)