If Offa did not gain the advantage in Wessex until defeating Cynewulf in 779, it may be that his successes south of the river were a necessary prerequisite to his interventions in the southeast.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If his writing is often seen as trying to popularize the astronomical theories of René Descartes, whose greatest exponent he is sometimes considered, it also appealed to the literate society of the day to become more involved in " natural philosophy ," thus enriching the work of early-Enlightenment scientists.

If the grocer's child becomes literate, he not only will criticise my speech, but he will also utter words that neither you nor I will understand .... What would happen if the forage-seller's child turns out intelligent and capable — and mine, the son of a Haji, turns out lazy and foolish?

If the Old English legendary characters have been influenced by these historical characters, this would set the late 8th century as a terminus post quem for the date of Beowulf.

If the tradition of Halfdan / Healfdene being slain by Fróði / Froda is an old one, it might be that the Beowulf poet knew that tale and that Heorogar ( Healfdene's eldest son in Beowulf ) was imagined Heorogar to have died with Halfdan.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

In 2002, classicist and poet Anne Carson produced If Not, Winter, an exhaustive translation of Sappho's fragments.

The second major variation is the song " Wenn alle untreu werden " ( German: " If everyone becomes unfaithful ") better known as " Das Treuelied ", which was written by the poet Max von Schenkendorf ( 1783 – 1817 ) and used exactly the same melody as the Wilhelmus.

If the solipsist created a famous poet in his mind, why doesn't the solipsist have the capacity to imitate their skill?

If the books must suffer such a death ( criticism ), the poet requests silence and that they be forgotten, without altar or inscriptions, and left undisturbed unless new merit is found in them.

If true, Tone would have been a first cousin of the poet Charles Wolfe, who also had a prominent nose.

If a poet writes poetry and the poems have many verses, or if someone writes many compositions, it will always be the case that some of their writings might not be excellent.

If a satirical account in two poems by the poet William Dunbar is based in fact, the castle walls may have been the site of an attempt at human-powered flight, c. 1509, by the Italian alchemist and abbot of Tongland, John Damian.

If, after contemplating the splendid and heroic parts of his character, we shall inquire for the milder virtues of humanity, and seek for the man, we shall find the refined, beneficent, and social qualities of private life, through all its forms and combinations, so happily modified and united in him, that in the words of the darling poet of nature, it may be said:

" The poet and dramatist John Drinkwater remarked, " If this scene were set down in the middle of Europe, the whole continent would flock to see it!

If he was really the author of the verses " To the Learned Shepheard ," signed " Hobynoll " and prefixed to the Faerie Queene, he was a good poet spoiled.

If this was the poet, as is usually assumed, then the citation indicates that he had completed studies in both arts and canon law.

If this was the poet, then it would establish that one of his functions was as notary for the abbey, an institution which possessed and managed a vast portfolio of territory across Scotland.

If this is the case, then he was the son of Exuperantius of Poitiers, of whom the contemporary pagan poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus wrote: " Even now his father Exuperantius trains the Armoric sea-board to love the recovery of peace ; he re-establishes the laws, brings freedom back and suffers not the inhabitants to be their servants ' slaves.

If it wasn't for Black's extensive education he would not be where he is today, and would never have been able to become a veterinarian, or a poet for that matter.

Another anecdote says that al-Nabigha told al-Khansa " If Abu Basir had not already recited to me, I would have said that you are the greatest poet of the Arabs.

: If I were the poet, I would be very, very concerned, all the more because you would have a great deal of responsibility if by chance ( may the Devil not make it happen ) they should not allow this drama be given "

If the disrobing did happen, Poseidippus would most likely have mentioned it because he was a comic poet.

If we compare this with a similar allegory in Nasir's Diwan, which culminates in the praise of Mustansir, we are fairly entitled to look upon it as a covert allusion to the eminent men who revealed to the poet in Cairo the secrets of the Isma ' ili faith, and showed him what he considered the heavenly ladder to superior knowledge and spiritual bliss.

He wrote a play for BBC Radio 4 about the WWII poet Alun Lewis: If I Should Go Away.

• Collection of poems sung in the Seventh " Arab Music Festival " in the Egyptian Opera House entitled :" the night after the millennium ", a poetic evening that presented poems by youthful voices :-poem " Law Anbani El Araf " ( If the fortune teller told me ) by the Iraqi poet Lamiaa Abbas Omarah and presented by Hayat El Idrisi-Morocco, and the poem " Al ghariban " ( The strangers ) by Amal Dunqul sung by the Tunisian singers Mohamed ElJebali abd Enas Samar.

" If the key to contemporary Polish poetry is the selective experience of the last decades, Herbert is perhaps the most skillful in expressing it and can be called a poet of historical irony.