Dictionary Entry
A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
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Poetry examples for “barn”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There’s men from the barn and the forge and the mill and
the fold, |
Read full poem →An old barn done-for and out of the wormholes ten-
legged roaches shook up and scared by sunlight.
Read full poem →And, all the bags being fill'd and rank'd fivefold, they pour
The treasure on the barn's clean floor,
And take them back for more,
Read full poem →Said Roger Ragsdale: "I was doctorin'
A heifer in the barn, and then
My boy says: 'Pap, that's Billy Paris.'
Read full poem →THEY should never have built a barn there, at all--
Drip, drip, drip!--under that elm tree,
Read full poem →Like the straight-backed down,
Many a time--the barn
At the edge of the town,
Read full poem →Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!
These are indeed the barn; withindoors house
The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse