Dictionary Entry

ashes

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈæʃ.əz/Used In Literature ↓

The solid remains of a fire.

In a Sentence

“Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. ashesashes wood

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Poetry examples for “ashes”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.

To midnight dances, and the public show?
What, though no weeping loves thy ashes grace,
Nor polish'd marble emulate thy face?

Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes
fall’n away.

May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint,
Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we are ashes and dust.

blossom,
Bitter as ashes or tears is the fruit, and the wine thereof shame.
As a heart that its anguish divides is the green bud cloven asunder;

One night; and like as these
White ashes of no weight,
Held not his urn the cold

The stooped urn, filling, dips and flashes;
The bronzed brims are deep in ashes;
The pale old lips of death are fed.

Breathe close upon the ashes,
It may be flame will leap;

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust;
As of the unjust, also of the just—

I know not, let me dream my dream.
Are dust and ashes fit to make a treasure?
I know not, let me take my pleasure.