Read full poem →I first, and following thro’ the porch that sang
Dictionary Entry
A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “porch”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Pale, beyond porch and portal,
Crowned with calm leaves, she stands
Read full poem →Through travail of ignoble midnight streets
He came at last to shelter in a porch
Where gothic saints and warriors made a shield
Read full poem →I walked to the porch and inside the house. My father followed me.
Read full poem →It was terrible. All the fathers in my immediate neighborhood had lost
their jobs. My father had lost his job. Gene’s father sat on his front porch
all day. All the fathers were without jobs except Chuck’s who worked in
Read full poem →We got into the Model-T and drove over to see my Grandfather Leonard.
As we drove up and stopped he was standing on the porch of his house.
He was old but he stood very straight. He had been an army officer in
Read full poem →I saw the damsel walking yesterday,
There, where the porch doth Danaus' fact[242] display:
She pleased me soon; I sent, and did her woo;
Read full poem →Thy ruddiest blazing torch,
That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch
Of the glad Palace of Virginity,
Read full poem →Widow La Rue has returned
And is rocking on the porch--
What is about to happen?