Read full poem →Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog. Drip--hiss--drip--hiss--
fall the raindrops. Overhead hammers and chinks the rain which never stops.
Dictionary Entry
A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydrocarbon based fuels); a flue.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “chimney”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog. Drip--hiss--drip--hiss--
fall the raindrops on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
Read full poem →Over the housetops,
Above the rotating chimney-pots,
I have seen a shiver of amethyst,
Read full poem →for Chimney Money, for which he had
the Court thanks, but no snip.
Read full poem →Her key’s in the lock,
And you never see her chimney smoke
Till past ten o’clock!
Read full poem →Were brittle on the ground,
And the wind in the chimney
Made a melancholy sound,
Read full poem →Her key's in the lock,
And you never see her chimney smoke
Till past ten o'clock!
Read full poem →Were brittle on the ground,
And the wind in the chimney
Made a melancholy sound,
Read full poem →The place almost seems peopled, nor
Lacks cottage chimney, cottage hearth:
It is not more
Read full poem →Smoke that floated and rolled in the twilight away from the chimney
Floats and rolls no more. Wheeling and falling, instead,