Read full poem →THAT night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
Dictionary Entry
A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. coffinscoffins stonecoffins woodencoffins twocoffins three
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Poetry examples for “coffins”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →notice the length of his fingers and their dexterity. He showed plain
coffins and splendid coffins. He unscrewed the lid of one, that I might
see the silky cushions within. They looked easier than last night’s
Read full poem →(Nor for you, for one alone,
Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,
For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane
Read full poem →That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.