Read full poem →Like stinging ice, and his passion, chilled,
Lay in his heart like some dead thing killed
At the moment of birth. Then, deadly sick,
Dictionary Entry
To put (something) aside for future use.
In a Sentence
“to lay in a stock / store / supply of something”
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Poetry examples for “lay in”
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Read full poem →And when thou feel'st no grief, as I no harmes,
Yet love thy dead, who long lay in thine arms,
And when thy loss shall be repaid with gains
Read full poem →“Henry, get up! It’s not good for a young boy to lay in bed all day! Now,
get up! Do something!”
Read full poem →And thou, my light, accept me howsoever;
Lay in the mid bed, there be my lawgiver.
My stay no crime, my flight no joy shall breed,
Read full poem →it was destroyed from without as above, but failed to
fix any direct responsibility. As the ship lay in a
Spanish harber and at a point where she was direct d to
Read full poem →The Congress was in session for months while the
President lay in the White House, struggling
with a terrifying illness and, at times, close to
Read full poem →Bluebells hid all the ruts in the copse.
The elm seeds lay in the road like hops,
That fine day, May the twenty-third,
Read full poem →Then sought the Dust --
And lower lay in low Westminster
For Her brief Crest --
Read full poem →In their temples Thor and Odin
Lay in dust and ashes trodden,
As King Olaf, onward sweeping,
Read full poem →Jutting overhang the river. 50
There they lay in wait for Kwasind,
The malicious Little People.