“Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture”
Robert Browning
“It's hame and it's hame, hame fain wad I be, / O, hame, hame, hame to my ain countree!”
Allan Cunningham
“I would fain die a dry death.”
William Shakespeare
“Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been -To public feasts, where meet a public rout - Where they are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out”
John Davies
“Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“They think the allies are not gone, and if the allies should come (again) they would fain be in the deserts with the desert Arabs asking for news about you, and if they were among you they would not fight save a little.”
quran