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    Announcing the 2016 RhymeZone Poetry Prize

    Rhymes [Lyrics and poems] Near rhymes Descriptive words (New!) Definitions Homophones Similar sound Same consonants RelatedFilter by rhyme...

    From Love's Labour's Lost: Act IV, scene III:

    For revels, dances, masks and merry hours Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.

    From Miscellaneous: Poem XV.:

    Were I with her, the night would post too soon; But now are minutes added to the hours; To spite me now, each minute seems a moon; Yet not for me, shine sun to succor flowers!

    From Shakespeare's Sonnet CXXIV.:

    It fears not policy, that heretic, Which works on leases of short-number'd hours, But all alone stands hugely politic,

    That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.

    From Shakespeare's Sonnet XVI.:

    Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit:

    From "Narrative And Dramatic The Wanderings Of Oisin" by William Butler Yeats:

    I know not if days passed or hours, And Niamh sang continually Danaan songs, and their dewy showers Of pensive laughter, unhuman sound,

    From "When Helen Lived" by William Butler Yeats:

    From bitterest hours; Yet we, had we walked within Those topless towers Where Helen waked with her boy,

    From "A DIALOGUE BETWIXT HIMSELF AND MISTRESS ELIZAWHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OF AM

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    ARILLIS" by Robert Herrick:

    HER. What have the meads to do with thee, Or with thy youthful hours? Live thou at court, where thou mayst be The queen of men, not flowers.

    From "TO MISTRESS KATHARINE BRADSHAW, THE LOVELY,THAT CROWNED HIM WITH LAUREL" by Robert Herrick:

    My Muse in meads has spent her many hours Sitting, and sorting several sorts of flowers,

    From "HOW PANSIES OR HEARTS-EASE CAME FIRST" by Robert Herrick:

    For their restless here-spent hours, Gave them hearts-ease turn'd to flowers.

    From "THE DIRGE OF JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER:SUNG BY THE VIRGINS" by Robert Herrick:

    May all shy maids, at wonted hours, Come forth to strew thy tomb with flowers;

    From "AN ODE TO SIR CLIPSBY CREW" by Robert Herrick:

    Thus, thus we live, and spend the hours In wine and flowers;

    From "Air Of Diabelli's" by Robert Louis Stevenson:

    Days of April, airs of Eden, Call to mind how bright the vanished angel hours, Golden hours of evening, When our boat drew homeward filled with flowers.

    From "Rose Pogonias" by Robert Lee Frost:

    Or if not all so favored, Obtain such grace of hours, that none should mow the grass there While so confused with flowers.

    From "Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes" by Robert Burns:

    Where at moonshine midnight hours, O'er the dewy-bending flowers,

    From "Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of ----" by William Wordsworth:

    Here did he sit confined for hours; But he could see the woods and plains,

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    Could hear the wind and mark the showers Come streaming down the streaming panes.

    From "Waterfall and The Eglantine, The" by William Wordsworth:

    And in the sultry summer hours,

    I sheltered you with leaves and flowers;

    From ""The World Is To Much With Us; Late and Soon"" by William Wordsworth:

    The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

    From "To The Daisy (fourth poem)" by William Wordsworth:

    He then would steal at leisure hours,

    And loved you glittering in your bowers

    From "Seedling, The" by Paul Laurence Dunbar:

    And the sun and shower will help you Through the lonesome, struggling hours, Till you raise to light and beauty Virtue's fair, unfading flowers.

    From "A Madrigal" by Paul Laurence Dunbar:

    Dream days of fond delight and hours, As rosy-hued as dawn, are mine. Love's drowsy wine, Brewed from the heart of Passion flowers,

    From "Charm, The" by Rupert Brooke:

    And through the dreadful hours The trees and waters and the hills have kept The sacred vigil while you slept, And lay a way of dew and flowers

    From "Two In The Campagna" by Robert Browning:

    Such life here, through such lengths of hours, Such miracles performed in play, Such primal naked forms of flowers, Such letting nature have her way

    From "Fatima" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

    Last night I wasted hateful hours

    Below the city's eastern towers:

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    From "To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

    Remembering all the golden hours Now silent, and so many dead, And him the last; and laying flowers, This wreath, above his honor'd head,

    From "Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not" by George Gordon, Lord Byron:

    Of those beloved, those vanish'd hours, When all my soul was given to thee; Hours that may never be forgot, Till Time unnerves our vital powers,

    From "Giaour, The" by George Gordon, Lord Byron:

    'In earlier days, and calmer hours,

    When heart with heart delights to blend, Where bloom my native valley's bowers I had - Ah! have I now? - a friend!

    From "Bluebell, The" by Anne Bront:

    My happy childhood's hours When bluebells seemed like fairy gifts A prize among the flowers, Those sunny days of merriment

    From "Fairy Tale (2)" by Katherine Mansfield:

    Of bees that hover in the velvet hours.... Now a strain Wild and mournful blown from shadow towers, Echoed from shadow ships upon the foam,

    From "Improvisatore, The" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    O bliss of blissful hours ! The boon of Heaven's decreeing, While yet in Eden's bowers Dwelt the first husband and his sinless mate !

    From "To Milton" by Oscar Wilde:

    Wherein we waste our else too-crowded hours: For all our pomp and pageantry and powers

    From "Garden Of Boccaccio, The" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    Of late, in one of those most weary hours,

    When life seems emptied of all genial powers,

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    From "Al Aaraaf" by Edgar Allan Poe:

    As sprang that yellow star from downy hours Up rose the maiden from her shrine of flowers,

    From "Al Aaraaf" by Edgar Allan Poe:

    Nor long the measure of my falling hours, For nearest of all stars was thine to ours-

    From "Endymion (excerpts)" by John Keats:

    My little boat, for many quiet hours, With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.

    From "La Figlia Che Piange" by Thomas Stearns Eliot:

    Many days and many hours: Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.

    From "Lang Coortin', The" by Lewis Carroll:

    "For ten lang years, O weary hours! I coorted thee by signs; By sending game, by sending flowers, By sending Valentines.

    From "Yellow Clover" by Katharine Lee Bates:

    To be our tenderest language. All the years It lent a new zest to the summer hours, As each of us went scheming to surprise The other with our homely, laureate flowers.

    From "Four Songs Of Four Seasons" by Algernon Charles Swinburne:

    For all the hours, Come sun, come showers,

    From "Four Songs Of Four Seasons" by Algernon Charles Swinburne:

    His years and hours, His world's blind powers,

    From "Four Songs Of Four Seasons" by Algernon Charles Swinburne:

    Higher in these high first hours Wax all the keen church towers,

    From "A Clasp Of Hands" by Algernon Charles Swinburne:

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    And mock with motion faint and fleet The minutes of the new strange hours That earth, not heaven, must mete; Buds fragrant still from heaven's own bowers,

    From "A Song of Pitcairn's Island" by William Cullen Bryant:

    Come, for the soft low sunlight calls, We lose the pleasant hours; 'Tis lovelier than these cottage walls,-- That seat among the flowers.

    From "A Congratulatory Poem" by Arphra Behn:

    No longer waits the Lasie teeming Hours, But e're her time produc'd her Oderous Flowers;

    From "Gertrude of Wyoming" by Thomas Campbell:

    Unheard their clock repeats its hours! Cold is the hearth within their bowers!

    From "Ode On The Spring" by Thomas Gray:

    Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours, Fair Venus' train appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year!

    From "Into Battle" by Julian Greenfell:

    In dreary doubtful waiting hours, Before the brazen frenzy starts, The horses show him nobler powers; -- O patient eyes, courageous hearts!

    From "The Exequy" by Henry King:

    So I compute the weary hours With sighs dissolved into showers.

    From "LOVE MINUS ZERO/NO LIMIT" by Bob Dylan:

    Make promises by the hours, My love she laughs like the flowers,

    From "Be Anything But a Girl" from "Meet Me In St. Louis":

    BUZZINTHROUGH THE HOURS

    STEALINALL THE HONEY FROM THE WILLINFLOWERS BE A FLY, BE A BEE

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    From "Side by Side/What Would We Do Without You?" from "Company":

    Who would I complain to for hours? Who'd bring me the flowers

    From "5 to 9" from "9 to 5":

    Five to nine. I hate those lonely hours. All that Time away, from him and all that power.

    From "I Want More" from "Lestat":

    Should I be the little miss

    And while away the hours? I think not, I'd rather hunt Than cut up paper flowers.

    From "Lovesick" from "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown":

    You hardly sleep because your sheets are wet, Toss and turn for hours. And your sweat is sweet , Smells like dying flowers. You got pain in your stomach like a long neglected tooth.

    From "Radio Ga Ga" from "We Will Rock You":

    Across our screens for hours and hours We hardly need our eyes or ears

    From "If I Had My Druthers" from "Li'l Abner":

    I sits there for hours, developin' my powers

    From "If I Only Had A Brain" from "The Wizard Of Oz":

    I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers

    From "Jellicle Ball" from "Cats":

    We're quiet enough in the morning hours We're quiet enough in the afternoon Reserving our terpsichorean powers To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon

    From "All the Wasted Time" from "Parade":

    All the million hours.

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    Years on top of years

    From "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" by Prince:

    How can I get through days when I can't get through hours I can try but when I do I see you and I'm devoured, oh yes

    Who'd allow, who'd allow a face to be soft as a flower I could bow and feel proud in the light of this power, oh yes

    From "What A Diff'rence A Day Made" by Barry Manilow:

    Twenty four little hours Brought the sun and the flowers

    From "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" by Elton John:

    Never realized the passin' hours of evenin' showers

    From "Open All Night" by Bruce Springsteen:

    Your eyes get itchy in the wee, wee hours Sun's just a red ball risin' over them refinery towers

    From "What's Your Trip" by Kottonmouth Kings:

    The event's about to happen in the next few hours I've entered a world with billions of flowers

    From "1,000 Hours" by Green Day:

    One thousand hours Of such a love shower

    From "Chivalry" by Usher:

    How it feel when you talk for hours Show up at the door wit some flowers

    From "Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt:

    Here in the dark, in these lonely hours I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power

    From "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt:

    Here in the dark, in these final hours I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power

    From "Given More Time" by Vince Gill:

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    In a few more hours The sun's gonna shine I wish, I had the power To be given more time

    From "Sing My Songs to Me" by Jackson Browne:

    Let the minutes and hours Show my mind strange new flowers

    From "A Place Where We Used to Live" by Mark Knopfler:

    This empty kitchen's where I'd wile away the hours Just next to my old chair You'd usually have some flowers

    From "Mrs. Hemingway" by Mary Chapin Carpenter:

    And walked for hours Arm and arm through the rain, to the glassed-in cafe That held us like hot house flowers

    From "Windows and Walls" by Dan Fogelberg:

    Chiming the hours Must be the loneliest sound She washes her dishes

    And waters her flowers

    From "What A Difference A Day Makes" by Bobby Darin:

    Only twenty-four hours Brought the sun and the flowers

    From "Work It" by 50 CENT:

    I've got the magicstick, I can go for hours From the bed to the floor, to the sink to the shower

    From "Up the Junction" by Squeeze:

    I worked eleven hours And bought the girl some flowers

    From "Get wild" by Aaron Carter:

    Power, minutes turned into hours Now's the time to get louder

    From "Tha Truth" by T-Pain:

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    Hit the snooze button for hours Get up, hop into a two hundred thousand dollar shower

    From "Say Goodbye" by Dave Matthews Band:

    All we are is wasting hours until the sun comes up it's all ours

    From "How You Move It" by Bow Wow:

    minutes all he got, I last for hours So when I come around, he outta business like tower

    From "Moronica" by Mansun:

    grand and you work 3 hours

    girls through a hole in your trousers

    From "When I Grow Up" by Garbage:

    Happy hours, golden showers

    From "Pompeii" by Peter Hammill:

    The golden dream that holds back all the hours For the ladies in their Dionysian rites, Blonde heads all garlanded with flowers,

    Wine and love and laughter through the night

    From "Modern" by Peter Hammill:

    It traps in ashen hours and concrete towers,

    From "What Am I Gonna Do with You" by Barry White:

    Been makin' love for hours And baby, we're still goin' strong Girl, this night is ours And ooh, I swear I feel it, comin' on

    From "You Can't Catch Me" by George Thorogood And The Destroyers:

    New Jersey turnpike in the wee wee hours I was rollin' slowly 'Cause ole drizzlin' showers Here come ole flat top

    From "Seventeen Hours" by Bis:

    Seventeen Hours Remember me?

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    I used to know film stars I never made friends

    From "Magic Moments" by Burt Bacharach:

    The telephone call that tied up the line for hours and hours

    The saturday dance i got up the nerve to send you some flowers

    From "The Big Exit" by Editors:

    Damn the passing hours Damn the summer flowers

    From "Drapery Falls" by Opeth:

    I'm counting nocturnal hours

    Drowned Visions in haunted sleep Faint flickering of your powers Leaks out to show what you keep

    From "Repent" by SHeDAISY:

    I've been walking through the fields for hours Blind to the wild of the wildflowers

    From "Take It Away" by Wings:

    After hours Late in the bar By a darkened corner seat Faded flowers

    From "Funky Pretty" by The Beach Boys:

    Her calender is not like ours (She rules the hours) The hieroglyphs mark changing hours (She rules the stars)

    From "Funky Pretty" by The Beach Boys:

    Her calender is not like ours (She rules the hours) The hieroglyphs mark changing hours (She rules the stars) Her guiding light is from the stars (She's got the powers) Whoa

    From "The Trader" by The Beach Boys:

    Through to the time without hours Passing the eden of flowers

    From "Flood I" by Sisters Of Mercy:

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    Sitting here now in this bar for hours While these strange men rent strange flowers

    From "Flood I" by Sisters Of Mercy:

    I'll be picking up your petals in another few hours

    In the metal and blood, in the scent and mascara On a backcloth of lashes and stars In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth

    From "Flood II" by Sisters Of Mercy:

    Sitting here now in this bar for hours Strange men rent strange flowers

    From "Boundaries Of Your Mind" by Eleanor McEvoy:

    Strains of magic in the moonlight hours Render useless all your earthly powers

    From "The Night" by Frankie Valli:

    You won't fear the lonely hours If a day could last forever You might like your ivory tower

    From "Larissa's Lagoon" by Idina Menzel:

    She stays awake for hours Picking out the sweetest flowers

    From "Tears & Laughter" by Odds:

    nearly forty hours it's a living death if we could only catch our breath

    From "If I Could Do It All Again" by Aaron Lines:

    I'd work less hours, I'd buy her more flowers

    From "Busterismology" by Coup, The:

    I asked him why i couldn't get mo' hours He said it must be cause i lacked the mental powers

    From "Sugar" by Tonic:

    We can sit and talk for hours Underneath the golden flowers

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    From "Just Like Water" by Lauryn Hill:

    He's pouring out his soul to me for hours and hours Drawing out my nature with his hands Yearning, I'm so thirsty for his power

    Burning to be worthy of his land

    From "Animal In Man" by Dead Prez:

    Hannibal spoke for several hours But when talks about his plans for power

    From "Can I Live" by Black Rob:

    My night time prowlers, and grimmey after hours

    Karl Kani, Mumalo wear, Eddie Bauers

    From "Seven Days Without You" by Teddy Geiger:

    Sitting here counting the hours Waiting for the sun to kiss the sea Paralyzed by the fragrance of the flowers They remind me of you and me

    From "Let Me Love You One More Time" by Michael Peterson:

    I've been holdin' you for hours Wish I had a couple hundred more Maybe then I'd find the words to say what happens When I put my lips to yours

    From "Wake Up" by Earshot:

    Like a flame with a million hours Keeping warm this enchantment All that goes inside this grace is yours

    From "Why" by Son By Four:

    every night every day minutes become hours day's to month and you're not here my dry and no more tears.

    From "Can't Explain" by Longview:

    Waiting for hours Hours turn to days

    Days turn to years I'm still here

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    From "Clap Your Hands" by 3rd Storee:

    Its been goin for hours now You just got out the shower now

    From "Budicussy" by LiL Italy:

    I work hard all day long hours The smell lingers from the kitchen to the shower

    From "Holiday Madness" by Kam:

    And they open 24 hours And right about now they got a sale on bloomin' flowers

    From "Games People Play" by Joe South:

    And they wile away the hours In their ivory towers

    From "Love Song" by Furslide:

    Make believe for hours and hours You've got me surrendered to powers

    From "Cowboys" by The Fugees:

    (Buckin' at stars) and write rhymes for hours The ghetto missy, drinkin' whiskey sours

    From "Not Even Close" by Finn Tim:

    We fill up stolen hours, Hunger for the touch of money Building crooked towers on the faultline, faultline

    From "What I'll Give You Since You've Asked" by Collins Judy:

    As my life spills into yours, changing with the hours. Filling up the world with time, turning time to flowers.

    From "Sweeter Than the Flowers" by George Jones:

    No, no, I can't forget the hours You're the onliest one mom

    And sweeter than the flowers No, no, there's no need to bother

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    From "Games People Play" by Dolly Parton:

    Oh they whine away the hours in their ivory towers

    From "Baby Come Out Tonight" by Dolly Parton:

    No more dancin' after hours, singin' in the showers

    From "Don't Fall In Love" by Disney:

    Don't talk for hours Don't send flowers

    From "Games People Play" by Conway Twitty:

    So they wile away the hours in their ivory towers

    From "Let's Pretend We're Married" by Prince:

    free 4 a couple of hours (Free 4 a couple of hours) If U ain't busy 4 the next 7 years (Next 7 years)

    From "I Can't Make U Love Me" by Prince:

    Here in the dark, in these final hours I will lay down my heart (my heart) and I'll feel the power

    From "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" by Prince:

    How can I get through days when I can't get through hours I can try, but when I do I see you and I'm devoured

    From "Beautiful Extended Club Version" by Prince:

    How can I get through days when I can't get through hours (Tick tock U don't stop, tick tock U don't stop) I can try but when I do I see U and I'm devoured Oh Yes

    From "Leave The Driving" by Neil Young:

    They closed the coast highway for 12 hours No one could believe it Jed was one of ours

    From "Games People Play" by Waylon Jennings:

    Well, they wile away the hours In their ivory towers

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    From "A Nice Boy Like Me" by Barry Manilow:

    Doin' by the dance floor after hours? Dozin' over rolls of whiskey sours?

    From "Sacrifice" by Lil Wayne:

    Just to get the blood off in 3 or 4 hours Then come to your hood to get 3 or 4 cowards

    From "White Lady White Powder" by Elton John:

    I've had my face in a mirror for twenty four hours Staring at a line of white powder

    From "Games People Play" by Brenda Lee:

    And they wile away the hours in their ivory towers

    From "Sweeter Than the Flowers" by Kitty Wells:

    No, no, I can't forget the hours You're the only one mom and sweeter than the flowers

    From "Pick The Wildwood Flower" by Johnny Cash:

    'Cause she must've cried for hours I still hear her sayin' to me "Get your guitar and pick the 'Wildwood Flower'"

    From "Games People Play" by Bill Anderson:

    So they wile away the hours In their ivory towers

    From "Loving a Memory" by Bill Anderson:

    I loved you more in just a few hours Than most people love in all of their years

    From "Us" by Bill Anderson:

    And sometimes we just talked for hours Dreaming dreams and building towers

    From "First Mrs. Jones" by Bill Anderson:

    I dug and dug for hours And then I planted flowers

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    From "Legend Of The Big Steeple" by Porter Wagoner:

    So this man of wealth and his true love dear Named the wedding hours They would wed in the little church The one that had no towers.

    From "First Mrs. Jones" by Porter Wagoner:

    I dug and dug for hours and then I planted flowers

    From "Night Rally" by Elvis Costello:

    About deeds done in the darkest hours That's just the sort of catchy little melody To get you singing in the showers

    From "Dinner For One Please, James" by King Crimson:

    Leave me with silent hours. No, don't move her favorite flowers,

    From "Magic Moments" by Perry Como:

    That tied up the line for hours and hours The Saturday dance I got up the nerve to send you some flowers

    From "Sweeter Than the Flowers" by Bobby Bare:

    No, no, I can't forget the hours You're the only one mama and sweeter than the flowers

    From "Lemonade" by Beck:

    Sloping gardens, mystic hours Fried vibrations overpowered

    From "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" by Rick Nelson:

    People carry roses, make promises by the hours My love she laughs like the flowers

    From "I Remember The Sun" by XTC:

    We whiled away the hours I'm thinking of the days we had Enormous super powers

    Yes I'm sleeping, my mind's on the blink

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    From "Let's Work Together" by Status Quo:

    Oh well now, two or three minutes, two or three hours What does it matter now in this life of ours?

    From "Radio Ga Ga" by Queen:

    On videos for hours and hours We hardly need to use our ears

    From "Too Much Thinking" by Mxpx:

    I'm gonna sit and think for hours I'm gonna sit and consider flowers

    From "What's Your Trip?" by Kottonmouth Kings:

    It's about to happen in the next few hours, I've entered a world with billions of flowers

    From "Marijuana" by Kottonmouth Kings:

    a couple hits and im lit for hours im talking high high like then a high tower

    From "African Friend" by Jimmy Buffett:

    We were rolling the bones several hours Conversing as most gamblers do We were calling on all of our powers Hopin' to see the night through

    From "When Salome Plays The Drum" by Jimmy Buffett:

    Let them play for hours Tonight the weather feels so right Tomorrow (tomorrow) feels like showers

    From "Generations Landslide" by Alice Cooper:

    Who's pubic to the world but involved in high finance. Sister's out 'til five doing banker's son's hours. But she owns a Maserati that's a gift from his father. Stopped at full speed at one hundred miles per hour.

    From "Generation Landslide '81" by Alice Cooper:

    Sister's out til 5, doing banker son's hours But she owns a Mazarotti that's a gift from his father

    Stop at full speed, at 100 miles per hour The Colgate invisible shield finally got 'em

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    From "Those Were The Days" by Wanda Jackson:

    Once upon a time there was a tavern where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours And think of all the great things we would do Then the busy years went rushing by us we lost our

    From "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" by Sonic Youth:

    can you push back the hours? i hear yr voice, i speak yr name among nyc ghosts and flowers will we meet? to run again?

    From "Hummingbirds" by Weird Al Yankovic:

    I love to watch the Hummingbirds just hovering for hours They look like mini-helicopters pollinating flowers

    From "Local Flowers" by Tom T. Hall:

    Where I will spend my eternal hours Lay me down with local flowers.

    From "Souvenirs" by Tom T. Hall:

    Take my yesterdays the minutes the hours

    They're just souvenirs they'll fade like the flowers

    From "Off To Work" by Chicago:

    Lord, give me strength to make these hours Soon, my long work day is done And I run home for the phone, yeah An hour in the shower

    From "'Till The End Of Time" by Chicago:

    Free from all the weary wasted hours Free from all those meaningless encounters

    From "the rain welcome back party hard" by Tech N9ne:

    The day is just like moments turned to hours , All the graphs, sound check, radio spots and quick showers

    From "Half A Crown" by Nana Mouskouri:

    Through the hours Asking the world To buy my flowers

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    From "No Idea's Original" by Nas:

    Lightin spliffs up to stay high like 24 hours Sleep with my heat, wash with my gun in the shower

    From "Happiness is me and you" by Gilbert O'Sullivan:

    When the weeks turn to hours And in June it's April showers

    From "Games People Play" by Don Williams:

    They just wile away the hours, In their ivory towers

    From "My Secret Garden" by Depeche Mode:

    Search and search for hours, in among the flowers

    From "Get Away" by Westlife:

    We could make love for hours Don't have to worry about any little thing at all, I know You're mine, I'm yours So let's go

    From "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" by Marianne Faithfull:

    She could clean the house for hours or rearrange the flowers

    From "Sincerity" by DMX:

    I needed someone I could hold in my darkest hours A strong couple is a blessing and the heart is the power

    From "Me" by Atmosphere:

    He's only in town for a handful of hours But Rapunzel wanna come down and dance in the flowers

    From "Wild Wild Horses" by Atmosphere:

    Cause he knows if he hangs out for a few hours He'll dig another hole, trying to plant some new flowers

    From "Magic Moments" by Erasure:

    For hours and hours The Saturday Dance I got up the nerves

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    To send you some flowers

    From "Girl On LSD" by Tom Petty:

    we'd talk endlessly for hours but by morning it goes sour

    From "I Can't Make You Love Me [Live]" by Bonnie Raitt:

    In these final hours, I will lay down my heart And I'll feel the power; But you won't.

    From "Tear Ya Down" by Motorhead:

    I was talking to ya hours and hours, I promised you hearts and flowers,

    From "Wolverton Mountain" by Roy Drusky:

    I'm a goin' up on Wolverton Mountain Even if it takes me a hundred hours. I'm a goin' up on Wolverton Mountain I don't care about Clifton Clowers...

    From "Lust In Space" by Gwar:

    So many hours I wasted my powers

    From "Silent Homecoming" by Ringo Starr:

    These last few minutes seems like hours She tries her best not to cry But there's that hearse, filled up with flowers Did he really have to die?

    From "English Garden" by Ringo Starr:

    We'll shoot the breeze for hours and hours Buttercups grow, high at the towers

    From "Nosferatu" by Twiztid:

    Got to feed every twenty-four hours to keep my powers

    From "Showerdays" by Nofx:

    Once every 24 hours I'm supposed to take a shower

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    From "Before I Go" by John Hiatt:

    I've been sleeping for some hours Just woke up and you were there Like the morning, like the flowers Sunlight whispering in my ears

    From "Before I Go" by John Hiatt:

    I've been sleeping for some hours Just woke up and you were there Like the morning, like the flowers Sunlight whispering in my ears

    From "No Love Have I" by Mel Tillis:

    Then we'll spend our lonely hours Making love in an ivory tower.

    From "Games People Play" by Mel Tillis:

    They just wile away the hours in their ivory towers

    From "If I Only Had A Brain" by Phish:

    I could while away the hours, Conversin' with the flowers,

    From "I'm Taking You With Me" by Relient K:

    From all the miles and the hours That seem to endlessly devour

    From "You Can't Catch Me" by John Lennon:

    New jersey turnpike in the wee wee hours, I was rollin' slowly 'cause of drizzle showers.

    From "Magic Man" by Kanye West:

    she wanted work but wouldn't put any actual hours, her dude had the keys to super natural powers,

    From "Power (feat. Dwele)" by Kanye West:

    The clocks tickin, I just count the hours Stop trippin, Im trippinoff the power

    From "Power (feat. Dwele)" by Kanye West:

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    The clocks tickin, I just count the hours Stop trippin, Im trippinoff the powder

    From "Livin' In A Movie" by Kanye West:

    You gave him 9 1/2 Weeks, why you tryin to Rush Hours huh?

    And in The Cell dont drop soap in the showers huh

    From "Roses" by Kanye West:

    I know it's past visiting hours But can I please give her these flowers?

    From "Let's Work Together" by Dwight Yoakam:

    Two or Three hours

    What does it matter in this life of ours

    See hours used in context: 115 Shakespeare works, 5 quotations,3 Bible passages, 128 definitions

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