Read full poem →The velvet coverlet is sodden and wet, yet the roof beams are tight.
Overhead, the coronet gleams with its blackened gold, winking and blinking.
Among the rushes three corpses are growing cold.
Dictionary Entry
(causative) To cause to be or become black.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. blackenedfaces blackenedruins blackenedwalls blackenedface blackened
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Poetry examples for “blackened”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Good has come of it. Lo, I have done some work.
Over the blasted and the blackened spot
Of our unhappy and unhallowed deed
Read full poem →But stay! these walls--these ivy-clad arcades--
These mouldering plinths--these sad and blackened shafts--
These vague entablatures--this crumbling frieze--
Read full poem →And this mood by the name of melancholy
Shall no more blackened and obscured be.
Read full poem →In the naked frosty blue;
And the ghylls of the forest, already blackened
By Winter, are blackened anew.
Read full poem →yet far beyond the spent seed-pods,
and the blackened stalks of mint,
the poplar is bright on the hill,
Read full poem →From out this blackened waste, behold,
What happy homes shall rise !
Read full poem →Whenever he starts and lifts
His head through the blackened rifts
Of the crags that keep him down.
Read full poem →The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping blackened jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of screaming shell.
Read full poem →The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping blackened jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of screaming shell.