Read full poem →A rose in June's most honied heat,
When life makes keen the kindling sod,
Was not so soft and warm and sweet.
Dictionary Entry
That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sodhouse sodhouses sodsod firstsod oldsod green
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Poetry examples for “sod”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And yet there walks ooe on the sod.
Who, had it pEe^Eikl him and God,
Read full poem →Hours later, at sundown, gray dew creeping on the sod
and sheds, I see Alix again:
Read full poem →your lover comes—your child comes—the years
creep with toes of April rain on new-turned sod.
Read full poem →A lamb is innocent and mild
And merry on the soft green sod;
And Jesus Christ, the Undefiled,
Read full poem →There is no life like Spring-life born to die,--
Piercing the sod,
Clothing the uncouth clod,
Read full poem →But the dead branch spoke from the sod,
And the eggs answered me again:
Read full poem →And no one living can recall my face,
When under alien sod my bones lie rotten
With not a tree or stone to mark the place;
Read full poem →This little germ of nuptial love,
Which springs so simply from the sod,
The root is, as my song shall prove,
Read full poem →With a long streamer made of flowers,
The children of the sod, and this
Rose in the sun, and flew for hours.