Read full poem →A second arch is a wall
To separate our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
Dictionary Entry
(material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
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Poetry examples for “cables”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A second arch is a wall
To separate our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
Read full poem →Then as together the vessels crashed,
Eric severed the cables of hide,
With which King Olaf's ships were lashed,
Read full poem →The sky turned black as midnight and a sudden storm came on--
Awful and sudden--and the cables felt the shock;
Our anchors they all broke away and every sheet was gone.
Read full poem →O'ernight 'twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread
And straining cables wet with silver dew.
A sudden passing bullet shook it dry.
