Read full poem →Stooped and drooped with thousand tendrils in thirsty languishing;
Bowed to earth and lay on earth for earth’s replenishing;
Put off sweetness, tasted bitterness, endured time’s fashioning;
Dictionary Entry
To provide (food or drinks) for free
In a Sentence
“At the conference, they laid on a wonderful buffet.”
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Poetry examples for “lay on”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
Read full poem →Lay on the tide like a log,
He vomited flame no more.
Read full poem →Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen,
Felt an innocent warmth as she lay on the green:
She had heard of a pleasure, and something she guessed
Read full poem →He sang to my ear,--they sang to my eye.
The delicate shells lay on the shore;
The bubbles of the latest wave
Read full poem →'What and if he, frowning, wake you, dreamy?
Lay on you the blame that bricks--conceal?
Say '_At least I saw who did not see me,
Read full poem →There’s a holier chase in your view:
I’ll lay on your head, that the pack you’ll soon lead,
For puppies like you there’s but few,
Read full poem →I reached out and hitched the receiver on to my pillow so the
mouthpiece rested on my collarbone and the earpiece lay on my
shoulder.
Read full poem →Views of the Oxford Colleges
Lay on the table, with the knitting.
Read full poem →To help each other. You, if you are. false
To that first fellowship, lay on the curse.
But write now to the Spaniard : briefly say