“Lay, lady, lay. Lay across my big, brass bed.”

“I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses”

“…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.”

“Sleep is a death; oh, make me try
By sleeping what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave as now my bed.”

“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”

“Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath,
As I lay my body down
Between the ache of breath and breath,
Golden slumber in the bone.”

“On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach, her arms bent as if she were swimming to the edge of a lake; his mother lay on her back, her feet (one of which had a scar on it) arranged in the joyous pose of a dancer.”

“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.”

“you don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow”

“Meanwhile the 3 a. m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.”