Read full poem →Our seamen are fledged Loves,
Our masts are bills of doves,
Our decks fine gold;
Dictionary Entry
A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.
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Common Phrases
. mastsmasts twomasts threemasts tall
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Poetry examples for “masts”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Of faintest colour, where the gothic spires fly
And sway like masts, against a shifting breeze.
Read full poem →Ah ! how the masts did buckle and bend,
Read full poem →Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;
Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank,
Read full poem →blue, blue bay of Loanda! Calabar, the city lost in a forest; the long,
shining days at sea, the masts rocking against the stars at night;
the black Kru-boy sailors, taken at Freetown, bathing on deck morning
Read full poem →Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropped
They slept on the abyss without a surge--
Read full poem →Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropped
They slept on the abyss without a surge--