The music in my heart I bore

Long after it was heard no more.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Solitary Reaper.

Be the day never so long,

Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 26.

Three stories high, long, dull, and old,

As great lords' stories often are.

George Colman, The Younger (1762-1836): The Maid of the Moor.

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!

Long has it waved on high,

And many an eye has danced to see

That banner in the sky.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): Old Ironsides.

As one who long in populous city pent,

Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 445.

Long is the way

And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 432.

Unlike my subject now shall be my song;

It shall be witty, and it sha'n't be long.

Earl Of Chesterfield (1694-1773): Impromptu Lines.

And thou art long and lank and brown,

As is the ribbed sea-sand.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.

God save our gracious king!

Long live our noble king!

God save the king!

Henry Carey (1663-1743): God save the King.

Now let us sing, Long live the king!

And Gilpin, Long live he!

And when he next doth ride abroad,

May I be there to see!

William Cowper (1731-1800): History of John Gilpin.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,

Long, long ago, long, long ago.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839): Long, long ago.

Love me litle, love me long.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.

Love me little, love me long.

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): The Jew of Malta. Act iv.

You say to me-wards your affection's strong;

Pray love me little, so you love me long.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): Love me Little, Love me Long.

And the star-spangled banner, oh long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Henry Clay (1777-1852): The Star-Spangled Banner.

As merry as the day is long.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

This is the short and the long of it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

That life is long which answers life's great end.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 773.

Near the lake where drooped the willow,

Long time ago!

George P Morris (1802-1864): Near the Lake.

Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault,

The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 10.

And ever against eating cares

Lap me in soft Lydian airs,

Married to immortal verse,

Such as the meeting soul may pierce,

In notes with many a winding bout

Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

John Milton (1608-1674): L'Allegro. Line 135.

Past are three summers since she first beheld

The ocean; all around the child await

Some exclamation of amazement here.

She coldly said, her long-lasht eyes abased,

Is this the mighty ocean? is this all?

That wondrous soul Charoba once possest,—

Capacious, then, as earth or heaven could hold,

Soul discontented with capacity,—

Is gone (I fear) forever. Need I say

She was enchanted by the wicked spells

Of Gebir, whom with lust of power inflamed

The western winds have landed on our coast?

I since have watcht her in lone retreat,

Have heard her sigh and soften out the name.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864): Gebir. Book ii.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 340.

And don't confound the language of the nation

With long-tailed words in osity and ation.

J Hookham Frere (1769-1846): The Monks and the Giants. Canto i. Line 6.