Read full poem →Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age,
Dull, sullen prisoners in the body's cage:
Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years
Dictionary Entry
An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
In a Sentence
“The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. cagecage ribcage johncage ironcage thoraciccage bird
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Poetry examples for “cage”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In London to-morrow. He whines with rage
In his varnished cage.
Read full poem →When the prodigious Hannibal did crown
His cage, with razing your immortal town.
Thou, looking then about,
Read full poem →Your wanderings and bring you back,
And shut you up again with me and cage
Our love and hatred and our silent rage.
Read full poem →For more than a day,
I entered the cage and began to beat Brutus
And Leo and Gypsy.
Read full poem →By trees that injured him -- an evil trash
That made a cage, and held him while he bled.
Read full poem →She sings and watches like a bird,
Safe in a comfortable cage
From which there will be no more flying.
Read full poem →As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage
Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house,
Read full poem →Which of the four ingredients could rebel;
And where, imprisoned in so sweet a cage,
A soul might well be pleased to pass an age.