Read full poem →In converse high would stand,
Late, till the west was ashen
And darkness hard at hand,
Dictionary Entry
Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
In a Sentence
“An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “ashen”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;
And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past
To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare;
Read full poem →The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere--
Read full poem →And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn
Through the ashen greyness. If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to darkness utterly,
Read full poem →How sweet to be thus nestling deep in boughs,
Upon an ashen stoven pillowing me;
Faintly are heard the ploughmen at their ploughs,
Read full poem →It is reflected, clearly, in a lake,
With the young ashen boughs, 'gainst which it rests,
And th' half seen mossiness of linnets' nests.
Read full poem →To-day my skies are bare and ashen,
And bend on me without a beam.
Read full poem →There now the sun had sunk, but lines of gold
Hung on the ashen clouds, and on the points
Of the far level grass and nodding flowers
Read full poem →And hold you fiercely by either hand,
And seeing your age and ashen hair
I'll curse the thing that once you were,
Read full poem →Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?