Dictionary Entry
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Antonyms
No antonyms yet.
Poetry examples for “heath”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood,
Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath,
The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood,
Read full poem →Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
Read full poem →South, east, and north, our skies were all blown bare,
But westward over glimmering holt and heath
Read full poem →The twin-souled brethren of the single wreath,
Grown in kings' gardens, plucked from pastoral heath,
Wrought with all flowers for all men's heart's delight.
Read full poem →With lonely feeling, like the smell
Of heath on mountains, fill’d my heart.
To see her seem’d delight’s full scope,
Read full poem →The horseman and the horse lying beneath
The fir-tree-covered barrow on the heath,
The horseman and the horse with silver shoes,
Read full poem →WOMEN he liked, did shovel-bearded Bob,
Old Farmer Hayward of the Heath, but he
Loved horses. He himself was like a cob,
Read full poem →I love to see the old heath's withered brake
Mingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling,