Dictionary Entry

bats

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/bæts/Used In Literature ↓

Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.

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Poetry examples for “bats”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Look up and see the casement broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
My cricket chirps against thy mandolin.

Those matted woods where birds forget to sing,
But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling;
Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned,

But silent-bats in drowsy clusters cling;

I eased in Asia the Nizam
Of a monstrous brood of vampire-bats:
And as for what your brain bewilders,

And let the melancholy dirge complain,
(Whilst Bats shall shriek and Dogs shall howling run)
The tea-kettle is spoilt and Coleridge is undone!

And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain,
Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats,
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain

And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
Whistled, and beat their wings 380

And talked of the dark folk, who live in souls
Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees;
And of the wayward twilight companies,