Read full poem →There passengers shall stand, and pointing say,
(While the long funerals blacken all the way)
'Lo, these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd,
Dictionary Entry
(causative) To cause to be or become black.
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Common Phrases
. blacken
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Poetry examples for “blacken”
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Read full poem →in the Time,
City children soak and blacken soul and sense in
Read full poem →And grief is a grievous thing, and a man hath enough of his tears:
Why should he labour, and bring fresh grief to blacken his years?
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from
Read full poem →And grief is a grievous thing, and a man hath enough of his tears:
Why should he labour, and bring fresh grief to blacken his years?
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;
Read full poem →'Tis his to call the planets from on high,
To blacken Phoebus, and dissolve the sky;
His too, when all in his dark realms are hurl'd,
Read full poem →'Tis his to call the planets from on high,
To blacken Phoebus, and dissolve the sky;
His too, when all in his dark realms are hurl'd,
Read full poem →For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give—and take!
Read full poem →O'ercanopied by huge roots intertwin'd
With wildest texture, blacken'd o'er with age:
Round them their mantle green the ivies bind,