Read full poem →Pallas, nor thee I call on, mankind maid,
That at thy birth mad’st the poor smith afraid.
Dictionary Entry
To visit (a person); to pay a call to.
In a Sentence
“I really should call on my aunt more often.”
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Poetry examples for “call on”
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Read full poem →Your feast of; that most in you earnest eye
May but call on your banes to more carouse.
Worst will the best. What worm was here, we cry,
Read full poem →Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
Read full poem →Therefore, great bard, I not so fearfully
Call on thy gentle spirit to hover nigh
My daring steps: or if thy tender care,
Read full poem →Tristram! Tristram! let thy heart not fail!
Call on God and on the holy angels!
What, love, courage!--Christ! he is so pale. 80
Read full poem →Tristram! Tristram! let thy heart not fail!
Call on God and on the holy angels!
What, love, courage!--Christ! he is so pale.
Read full poem →The towers of Kew,
Call on their Mistress--now no more--and weep.
Read full poem →Are raging, and the sailors tremblingly _10
Call on the Twins of Jove with prayer and vow,
Gathered in fear upon the lofty prow,
Read full poem →call is not completed, except for a small report
charge in the case of a “collect” call on which
the called party will not accept the charges.
Read full poem →Delight no more: I seek my lonely bed,
And call on sleep to sooth my languid head.
But sleep from these sad lids flies far away;