Read full poem →Over the housetops,
Above the rotating chimney-pots,
I have seen a shiver of amethyst,
Dictionary Entry
A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. potspots cookingpots claypots flowerpots earthenpots small
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Poetry examples for “pots”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →O poor birds! where must ye fly,
Now your water-pots are dry?
If ye stay upon the heath,
Read full poem →And hedgrow-briars - flower-lovers overjoyed
Came and got flower-pots - these are all destroyed
And sky-bound mores in mangled garbs are left
Read full poem →the bellies of the girders, clustered round the throats of the piers, and
rode on the overhang of the footpath-stanchions; their fire-pots and the
spurts of flame that answered each hammer-stroke showing no more than pale
Read full poem →I forget you, hearing the cut flowers
Sipping their liquids from assorted pots,
Pitchers and Coronation goblets
Read full poem →The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
Read full poem →Flowers are a tiresome pastime.
One has a wish to shake them from their pots
root and stern, for the sun to gnaw.