Read full poem →That in the echo lives and with the echo dies.
The friendless town is friendly; homeless, I
not lost;
Dictionary Entry
Lacking a permanent place to live; without a home.
In a Sentence
“Many cities are working to provide resources and support for their homeless populations.”
Origin
From Old English 'hām' (home) and 'lēas' (without).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “homeless”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Those heavens are gone, the mountains grey
Turned mist--the sun, a homeless ranger,
Pursues alone his naked way,
Read full poem →Though every common's gone and though traps are set to kill
The little homeless miners--O it turns my bosom chill
When I think of old Sneap Green, Puddock's Nook and Hilly Snow,
Read full poem →And though we wear out life, alas!
Distracted as a homeless wind,
In beating where we must not pass,
Read full poem →yet practically it deprived the young fellow of a home,
or made him homeless. All this had been often enough
discussed, and public opinion at St. Bart's held itself in
Read full poem →Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,
Vocal are they, like storm-bewilder’d seas.
Read full poem →When you are standing at your hero's grave,
Or near some homeless village where he died,
Remember, through your heart's rekindling pride,
Read full poem →When I'm asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm,--
They come, the homeless ones, the noiseless dead.
While the dim charging breakers of the storm