All 5 Uses of
forsake
in
Faust
- THE WITCH (dancing) Reason and sense forsake my brain, Since I behold Squire Satan here again!†
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- And I must nurse it, warm beside me press it, And oft, to quiet it, my bed forsake, And dandling back and forth the restless creature take, Then at the wash-tub stand, at morning's break; And then the marketing and kitchen-tending, Day after day, the same thing, never-ending.†
- The dreary moon forsakes the sky; The magic notes, like spark on spark, Drizzle, whistling through the dark.†
- (To FAUST, who has left the dance:) Wherefore forsakest thou the lovely maiden, That in the dance so sweetly sang?†
- It is so wretched, to be strange, forsaken, And I'd still be followed and taken!†
Definition:
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(forsake) to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place