Read full poem →She went and came. But still there lay,
A gem she did not put away,
A locket twixt her breasts, all gay
Dictionary Entry
To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
In a Sentence
“I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room.”
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Poetry examples for “put away”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Cherish you then the hope I shall forget
At length, my lord, Pieria?--put away
For your so passing sake, this mouth of clay,
Read full poem →Never among the ghosts, or anywhere,
Till what was dead of him was put away,
Would he attain to his offended share
Read full poem →We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
Read full poem →We grow accustomed to the Dark --
When light is put away --
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
Read full poem →I said his mighty heart declined,
He loathed and put away his food;
It was not that 'twas coarse and rude,
Read full poem →An' it sort o' hurts my feelin's
Fur to see 'em put away
Fur these harum-scarum ditties
Read full poem →And tell me that my longing love had won your own,
I think all my sad thoughts would then be put away,
And I could give back laughter for the Ocean's moan!
Read full poem →own mind, and be not indecently subject to his vices; also
let him put away from his mind unbecoming anxieties, and
desist from complaints of his misfortunes. Though he reign
Read full poem →can behold the clear fountain of the highest good, and can
put away from himself the darkness of his mind ! We will
now from old fables relate to thee a story. It happened