Read full poem →Trampled to the floor it spanned,
And the tent of night in tatters
Straws the sky-pavilioned land.
Dictionary Entry
A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
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. tatters
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Poetry examples for “tatters”
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Read full poem →Trampled to the floor it spanned,
And the tent of night in tatters
Straws the sky-pavilioned land.
Read full poem →Like a cursed cur, Malice before her clatters,
And vexing every wight, tears clothes and all to tatters.
Read full poem →Senator Lodge, with the help of the irreconcil-
ables, having torn the Treaty to tatters and
thrown its fragments in the face of the world,
Read full poem →I was to say to him, 'You were wrong to say there is no God and no
soul--maybe, if there is not much of either, there is yet some tatters,
some tag on the wind--so to speak--some rag upon a bush, some bob-tail
Read full poem →The fire's out; the old cloak has been mended
For the last time, the soul peers through its tatters.
Put a light by and leave me; nothing more matters