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A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011)
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Poetry examples for “beetle”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Is naught but a farce! How well did you look with those eyes
As black as a beetle's through all the ridiculous show:
Ridiculous war, and ridiculous strife, and ridiculous pomp.
Read full poem →To face, to forge, to scoff, to company,
To crouch, to please, to be a beetle-stock
Of thy great master's will, to scorn, or mock.
Read full poem →That hйre pйrsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?—
A bush-browed, beetle-brуwed bнllow is it?
With a soъth-wйsterly wнnd blъstering, with a tide rolls reels
Read full poem →Hardly wood, hardly steel,
Beetle’s wing, snail’s wheel—
Sprawled upon the chymist’s bed
Read full poem →Make not your rosary of yew-berries,
Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be
Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl
Read full poem →And all the Air a solemn Stillness holds;
Save where the Beetle wheels his droning Flight,
And drowsy Tinklings lull the distant Folds.
Read full poem →And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:
Read full poem →7. _Save where the beetle_, etc. Cf. Collins, _Ode to Evening_: