Read full poem →Who calleth?--Thy Father calleth,
Run, O Daughter, to wait on Him:
He Who chasteneth but for a season
Dictionary Entry
To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
In a Sentence
“Is someone waiting on you yet?”
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Poetry examples for “wait on”
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Read full poem →Served God and pleased Him: after-saints no less
Can wait on and can please Him, one and all
In weariness and painfulness,
Read full poem →Unspotted lambs to follow the one Lamb,
Unspotted doves to wait on the one Dove;
To whom Love saith, “Be with Me where I am,”
Read full poem →His horn this minute, you'd up and ascend
To wait on St. Peter world without end."
Read full poem →From thence into their ears. God’s will devotes
Thine to such ends, and mine to wait on thine.
How, Dearest, wilt thou have me for most use?
Read full poem →Though Syrinx your Pan's mistress were,
Yet Syrinx well might wait on her.
Such a rural Queen
Read full poem →To leave me a hundred or twa, man;
Nae weel-tocher’d aunts, to wait on their drants,
And wish them in hell for it a’, man.
Read full poem →Dorset introduced him to King William with this expression, “Sir, I have
brought a _mouse_ to wait on your Majesty.” To which the King is said to
have replied, “You do well to put me in the way of making a _man_ of
Read full poem →deputed three of their number, William Strahan, Thomas Davies, and
Cadell, to wait on Johnson, asking him to write the series of prefatory
Lives, and name his own terms. Johnson agreed at once, and suggested as
Read full poem →I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.