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A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.
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Poetry examples for “drum”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →"Wheels on the road most like, or thunder:
Lie down; 'twas not the drum.:
Read full poem →Nor the fever nothing cures:
Throb of drum and timbal's rattle
Call but man alive to battle,
Read full poem →The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum.
I call out for you against the jutted stars
Read full poem →without ’em. And bv Gad’s lid I scorn it, I, so I
do, to be a consort for every hum-drum, hang-em
scroyls, there’s nothing in ’em, i’ the world. What
Read full poem →Let the woodpecker drum and drum on a hickory stump.
Read full poem →To-day, the Dahlgren and the drum
Are dread Apostles of his Name ;
Read full poem →Thou shouldst press the soldier's bier,
And the muffled drum should beat
To the tread of mournful feet,
Read full poem →Thou shouldst press the soldier's bier,
And the muffled drum should beat
To the tread of mournful feet,
Read full poem →The sunrise gun, with its hollow roar,
The drum-beat repeated o'er and o'er,
And the bugle wild and shrill.