Read full poem →with him is not rooted in satiety, but in the freshness of pure pleasure;
he would never cast off the old to put on the new. The chain once broken,
against which between sleeping and waking he chafes and wrestles, he would
Dictionary Entry
To don (clothing, equipment or the like).
In a Sentence
“Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “put on”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Put on the whole armour of Grod — having your loins girt about with truth, and having on
the breast-plate of righteousness. — Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye snail
Read full poem →For all Angels soon to sing:
Earth, put on your whitest
Bridal robe of spotless snow:
Read full poem →Did thorns for frontlets stamp between Mine eyes:
I, Holy One, put on thy guilt and shame;
I, God, Priest, Sacrifice.
Read full poem →Put off sweetness, tasted bitterness, endured time’s fashioning;
Put off life and put on death: and lo! it was all to bring
All its fellows down to a death which hath lost the sting,
Read full poem →And with your pastime let the bedstead creak;
But with your robes put on an honest face,
And blush, and seem as you were full of grace.
Read full poem →Of all that do the art of whoring use:
But when she hath put on her satin gown,
Her cut[512] lawn apron, and her velvet shoes,
Read full poem →Ere dreams put on the gown and cap of thought,
And make the waking world a world of lies,—
Read full poem →Yet, when be died three years ago
In the Indian war, she put on gray,
And wears no colours to this day.
Read full poem →gone from us forever,—gone, as a sunbeam to revisit its na-
tive skies,—gone, as this mortal to put on immortality.