Read full poem →The thoughts of friends keep watch and ward,
Harnessed angels, hand on sword.
Dictionary Entry
To transfer (something) to someone else, especially as a replacement for oneself (such as an official office or duty); to transfer something that was originally given to oneself from someone else.
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Poetry examples for “hand on”
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Read full poem →"I lay my hand on her bosom,
My hand on the heart of my earth,
Read full poem →I desire the berries,
But, in the mist, I only scratch my hand on the thorns.
Probably, too, they are bitter.
Read full poem →Thy sweetness all near me, so distant to-day;
My hand round thy neck and thy hand on my shoulder,
My mouth to thy mouth as the world melts away.
Read full poem →Spring came on as she always does,
Laid her hand on the yellow forsythia,--
Little boys turned in their sleep and smiled,
Read full poem →Not as to a single good, but all my good!
Lay thy hand on it, best one, and allow
That no child's foot could run fast as this blood.
Read full poem →Not as to a single good, but all my good!
Lay thy hand on it, best one, and allow
That no child’s foot could run fast as this blood.
Read full poem →no bow was to be seen. They had all melted away. He
put his hand on his head, and felt around on his head
for his white feathers, but the white feathers were no
Read full poem →He thought them warm before: nor longer stays,
But next his hand on her hard bosom lays;
Hard as it was, beginning to relent,
Read full poem →Which could, in wars, his power maintain;
That hand on which no plighted vows were ever vain.
Well, for so great a trust, he chose