Read full poem →Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath
Melts at their phantom touch. Another year
Is quick with import. Such each year has been.
Dictionary Entry
A ghost or apparition.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. phantomlimb phantompain phantomship phantomstock phantomphantom mere
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Poetry examples for “phantom”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →On the prairie the overland flits on phantom wheels and
the sky and the soil between them muffle the pistons
Read full poem →The phantom of a yellow rooster flaunting a scarlet
comb, on top of a dung pile crying hallelujah to
Read full poem →A blue-eyed phantom far before
Is laughing, leaping toward the sun;
Read full poem →On Seeing Two Brown Boys In a Catholic Church
and To a Persistent Phantom by Frank Horne; Poem
by Blanche Taylor Dickinson; The New Negro by James
Read full poem →Refuse it, till refusing be despair;
And thou shalt feel the phantom in thy hair.'
Read full poem →It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore,
By a crowd that seize it not,
Read full poem →For the afternoon and the night,
Where the phantom will not come,
Where the phantom may be forgotten.
Read full poem →And the blown glory of unawakened tresses--
A phantom sprung out of the garden's enchantment,
In the silence of the dawn hour!
Read full poem →What is about to happen?
For last night the phantom of the old soldier
Appeared to her again--