Read full poem →Of the wrong my father did?
How long, how long, till spade and hearse
Put to sleep my mother's curse?
Dictionary Entry
A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. spadework spadespade samspade one
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Poetry examples for “spade”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sad chance of war! now destitute of aid,
Falls undistinguish'd by the victor Spade!
Read full poem →He struck to earth the children
With a dirty spade.
As a tiger growls with an antelope
Read full poem →In a shower of gravel
Stamp upon your spade!
Many a rose shall ravel,
Read full poem →Odours that rise
When the spade wounds the root of tree,
Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed,
Read full poem →Till one day twelve months later suddenly
I leaned upon my spade and saw it all,
Though far beyond the sky-line. It became
Read full poem →Within their shadowed niches, grow
By grim degrees to pick and spade,
As one by one the phantoms go.
Read full poem →Rich thoughtless health unknown to pain:
Though, leaning on my spade to rest,
I've thought how richer folks were blest
Read full poem →8.
With plough and spade, and hoe and loom,
Trace your grave, and build your tomb, _30
Read full poem →And I crept down the stairs and up the stairs
To look again, and still your spade kept lifting.
Then you came in. I heard your rumbling voice