Read full poem →As clocks run fastest when most lead is on;
What though no bees around your cradle flew,
Nor on your lips distill'd the golden dew,
Dictionary Entry
A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
. beesbees honeybees worker
Missing dictionary details are being fetched in the background.
Synonyms
Antonyms
No antonyms yet.
Related Words
Poetry examples for “bees”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And one dark tress ; and all around them both
Sweet thoughts would swarm as bees about their queen.
Read full poem →Not one missing, still transcendent,
Clustering like a swarm of bees.
Yielding to no man's desire,
Read full poem →Of parrots in the orange trees,
Whose blossoms pasture humming bees.
He knows he feeds the urns whose smoke
Read full poem →Here sleeps the sun long, idle summer hours;
Here butterflies and bees fare far to rove
Amid the crumpled leaves of poppy flowers;
Read full poem →No sound but the wind as it whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers,
And the hum of the yellow bees, honey-laden and dusty with pollen.
And Summer said, "Come, follow onward, with no thought save the longing
Read full poem →Flashed flickering forth fantastic flies,
Big bees their burly bodies swung,
Rooks roused with civic din the elms,