Dictionary Entry

subterranean

Part of Speech: adjectiveUsed In Literature ↓

Below ground, under the earth, underground

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Common Phrases

passage subterraneanpassages subterraneanwater subterraneanworld subterraneanclover subterraneanwaters subterranean

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Poetry examples for “subterranean”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The belfries tingle to the noonday chime.
'Tis silent, and the subterranean dark
Has crossed the nadir, and begins to climb.

All common king-born kings.
‘These subterranean springs
A sudden outlet winning,

Oh Future! thou secreted peace
Or subterranean woe --
Is there no wandering route of grace

While Born his own close purse, his rabbit warren,
His subterranean chamber with a dozen doors,
A-bristle with antennae to feel roads,

Sinking he left his drugget robe behind,
Born upwards by a subterranean wind.
The mantle fell to the young prophet's part,

Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn,
From the soul's subterranean depth upborne
As from an infinitely distant land,

With eye suffused but heart inspired true,
On those walls subterranean, where she hid

Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn,
From the soul's subterranean depth upborne
As from an infinitely distant land,

Were called upon to exercise their skill, 35
Not in Utopia, subterranean [8] fields,
Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!