Read full poem →* Earth so huge, and yet so bounded—pools of salt,
and plots of land—
Dictionary Entry
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
Origin
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Common Phrases
lake salt. saltwater saltsolution salt1 saltsalt teaspoonsalt commonsalt great
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Poetry examples for “salt”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Where life breaks loud and unseen, a sonorous invisible tide;
By the sands where sorrow has trodden, the salt pools bitter and
sterile,
Read full poem →In the hollow before it the thunder is taken and snared as a prey;
In its sides is the north-wind bound; and its salt is of all men's
tears;
Read full poem →In the hollow before it the thunder is taken and snared as a prey;
In its sides is the north-wind bound; and its salt is of all men's tears;
With light of ruin, and sound of changes, and pulse of years:
Read full poem →Of whispering pine trees or the shimmering birch;
But of quick winds, and the salt, stinging sea!
An artist once, with patient, careful knife,
Read full poem →Three piers, a row of houses,
And a salt dirty smell from the little harbour.
Read full poem →How should I sing when buffeting salt waves
And stung with bitter surges, in whose might
Read full poem →And kiss this paper for thy dear love's sake,
Who with salt tears this last farewell did take.
Read full poem →But the cottage was empty, the _matutine_ deserted.
Who are these that walk by the shore of the salt sea water?
Here in the dusky eve, on the road by the salt sea water?