Read full poem →Thus does he sooth to overthrow a crown,
And Absalon's the tool to beat it down;
And easy Absalon, by gentleness drawn,
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(chiefly as imperative, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
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Poetry examples for “beat it”
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Read full poem →Brought from our God, a holy thing, a mad delight.
But love, when all things beat it down, leaves the wide air,
The heavens are gray, and men turn wolves, lean with despair.