Read full poem →is now but a barren hill,
But I draw pen on this barge
Causing the five peaks to tremble,
Dictionary Entry
A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “barge”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way,
With well tim'd oars before the royal barge,
Swell'd with the pride of thy celestial charge;
Read full poem →France to Marseilles, and thence by sea to Genoa, whence the passage
into Tuscany is as diurnal as a Gravesend barge. I hasten, as you do, to
Florence, or Siena, the rather to tell you a short story, from the
Read full poem →Changed to a Harmony in grey:
A barge with ochre-coloured hay
Dropt from the wharf: and chill and cold
Read full poem →English history. From the camp he was borne in the
Earl of Leicester's barge to Arnhem, and here he
lingered twenty-six days, suffering the most wearing
Read full poem →Beat up the dawn from Istria
With even feet. Her shuttered barge
Burned on the water all the day.