Read full poem →'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far,
Leagues beyond the sunset bar.
Dictionary Entry
A long, rigid piece of material, often metal or wood, used as a support, barrier, or handle. It can also refer to a place where drinks are served.
In a Sentence
“He leaned on the bar of the counter, waiting for his order.”
Origin
From Old French 'barre', meaning 'bar, bolt, crossbeam'.
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Poetry examples for “bar”
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Read full poem →How Church and State should be obliged to thee!
At Senate, and at Bar, how welcome would'st thou be!
Read full poem →: e bar that stretch
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Read full poem →October, 1892. To the music of the singing of two of his
own poems, “Silent Voices” and ‘‘Crossing the Bar,”
he was buried, on the twelfth of October, in Westminster
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Read full poem →Whose prows first clove the thought-unsounded sea
Whence all the dark dead centuries rose to bar
The spirit of man lest truth should make him free,
Read full poem →there are my books, there the piano,
there the last bar I wrote,
there the last line,
Read full poem →Shrieking
Is jolted forwards by a long hot bar--
Into direct distances.
Read full poem →For in the church, and at the bar,
On ’Change, at court, where’er they are,
Read full poem →Laid out the Sacred Dead;
And thou that bar’st Him in thy wondering womb;
Yea, Daughters of Jerusalem, depart,