Read full poem →To separate our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
Dictionary Entry
Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “stale”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Marvetl did Dot live to see any impravemecit
in the Stale, flor did he Ijccome generally known
ID his tifetime as a satiriat, foi his rersee were
Read full poem →Let the old boy, your son, ply his old task,
Turn the stale prologue to some painted mask;
His absence in my verse is all I ask.
Read full poem →To separate our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
Read full poem →'T was then the merry times began, the blunders, an' the laffin',
The nudges an' the nods an' winks an' stale good-natured chaffin'.
Ole Uncle Hiram Dane was there, the clostest man a-livin',
Read full poem →Haggard and hopeless. They, who have beaten down
The stale despair of night, must now renew
Their desolation in the truce of dawn,
Read full poem →Haggard and hopeless. They, who have beaten down
The stale despair of night, must now renew
Their desolation in the truce of dawn,
Read full poem →Haggard and hopeless. They, who have beaten down
The stale despair of night, must now renew
Their desolation in the truce of dawn,
Read full poem →Of an echo, exposes the panel in the wall
Behind which the secret passage lies—stale air,
Fusty remembrances, the coiled-spring stair
Read full poem →The morning comes to consciousness
Of faint stale smells of beer
From the sawdust-trampled street