Read full poem →Bowed to earth and lay on earth for earth’s replenishing;
Put off sweetness, tasted bitterness, endured time’s fashioning;
Put off life and put on death: and lo! it was all to bring
Dictionary Entry
To procrastinate.
In a Sentence
“Don't put it off to the last minute.”
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Poetry examples for “put off”
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Read full poem →Conscience, religion, honour, fame.
Ah, could I put off love! Could we
Never have met! What calm, what ease!
Read full poem →Lean weakly on a mortal's arm!
Honoria would put off the charm
Of lofty grace that caught your love,
Read full poem →Go then, said Francis, nothing loth,
Put off this gown of green snake cloth,
Put on one somber as a moth,
Read full poem →Let us, the Children of the Night,
Put off the cloak that hides the scar!
Let us be Children of the Light,
Read full poem →When they have journey’d through a world of cares,
May put off life, and be at rest for ever.
Groans, weeping friends, indeed, and gloomy sables,
Read full poem →As I hope to be sav’d,
I put off being shav’d,
For I could not make bold,
Read full poem →As I hope to be saved, 5
I put off being shaved;
For I could not make bold,
Read full poem →And from a boy, to youth he grew:
The man put off the stripling's hue:
Read full poem →And yet she knows obstruction is in vain:
We will not be put off the final goal
We have it hidden in us to attain,