Read full poem →Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er,
The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more;
But useless lances into scythes shall bend,
Dictionary Entry
A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
In a Sentence
“The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “trumpets”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Brake with a blast of trumpets from the gate,
Read full poem →And with trumpets and thunderings and with morning song
Came up the light;
Read full poem →Of the waltz. With a menacing roar,
The trumpets crash in through the door.
One! Two! Three! clangs his funeral bell.
Read full poem →The Christening.
A sudden blare of trumpets, and the throng
About the entrance parted as the guests
Read full poem →to cover him with their wings. Dear Mother, what is it that sings?
I hear voices singing, and lovely silver trumpets through it all. They seem
just on the other side of the wall. Let me keep my baby, Holy Mother.
Read full poem →With the red and gold of its blossoms.
Red and gold like the brass notes of trumpets.
The Poet knocked off the stiff heads of the dahlias,
Read full poem →Sound-B your untimely funeral;
Death-trumpets creak iti such a note.
And 'tta the sourdine* in iheir throat.
Read full poem →For woful hairs let piece-torn plumes abound,
For long shrild[267] trumpets let your notes resound.
Why Philomel dost Tereus' lewdness mourn?