Read full poem →On my neck the collar prest;
Years, when you lay down your ill,
I shall stand and bear it still.
Dictionary Entry
To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
In a Sentence
“Lay down your arms.”
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Poetry examples for “lay down”
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Read full poem →Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet,
O love, to lay down fear at love's fair feet;
Shall not some fiery memory of his breath
Read full poem →(Where the family English are all to assemble for safety),
Am I prepared to lay down my life for the British female?
Really, who knows? One has bowed and talked, till, little by little,
Read full poem →the salve off, with difficulty. I was burned, on my face, my back and chest.
That night I sat on the edge of the bed. I couldn’t lay down.
Read full poem →If long she stays, to think the time more short,
Lay down thy forehead in thy lap to snort.
Inquire not what with Isis may be done,
Read full poem →Beholding one like her, a man
Longs to lay down his life! How can
Aught to itself seem thus enough,
Read full poem →figures (for Phillis Wheatley never sang “My way’s cloudy,” or “By an
by, I’m goin to lay down dis heavy load”) there have been born many
poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Jean
Read full poem →Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest
Read full poem →Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest