Read full poem →Like stricken reeds of some morass,
Bleached, in Thy will, by ceaseless rain.
Have we not had enough of fire,
Dictionary Entry
To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
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Poetry examples for “bleached”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The shell of a little snail bleached
In the grass; chip of flint, and mite
Read full poem →down he dings
His bleached both and woolwoven wear:
Careless these in coloured wisp
Read full poem →LIKE burnt-out torches by a sick man’s bed
Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun-bleached stone;
Here doth the little night-owl make her throne,
Read full poem →now looked upon him bent under the weight of more
than seventy years—his locks bleached—his eyes dim-
med—his cheeks furrowed—his countenance care-worn:
Read full poem →And flickered upward, showing nimble rats,
And mounds of glimmering sand-bags, bleached with rain;
Then the slow, silver moment died in dark.
Read full poem →In some forgotten battle slain,
And bleached by drifting wind and rain.
It might have tamed a warrior's heart
Read full poem →On every cliff and tomb;
And on the bleached bones
Red clay brought forth:
Read full poem →On every cliff and tomb;
And on the bleached bones
Red clay brought forth: