Read full poem →To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
The flesh will grieve on other bones than ours
Soon, and the soul will mourn in other breasts.
Dictionary Entry
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
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Common Phrases
. bonesbones longbones brokenbones human
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Poetry examples for “bones”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day."
Read full poem →Wonder 'tis how little mirth
Keeps the bones of man from lying
On the bed of earth.
Read full poem →East and west on fields forgotten
Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
Read full poem →Huge Ammonites, and the first bones of Time ; 15
And on the tables every clime and age
Read full poem →When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee,
And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones,
Is it peace or war? better, war! loud war by land and by sea,
Read full poem →fied snakes. i
first bones, fossils of prehistoric animals.
17, celts, the stone weapons of the ancient Danes.
Read full poem →"For the bones of my slain are stirred,
And the seed of my earth in her womb