Read full poem →Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty highways crying
Dictionary Entry
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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. drumsbeating drumsbeat drumsdrums oildrums steeldrums beating
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Poetry examples for “drums”
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Read full poem →Up, lad, up, ’tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty highways crying
Read full poem →11 'I hear the beat of Jacob's[83] drums,
Poor Ovid finds no quarter!
Read full poem →One! Two! Three! And the drums are his knell.
He is heavy, his feet beat the floor
Read full poem →The bee through these known alleys hums.
Beating the dian with its drums.
Then flowers their drowsy eyelids raise.
Read full poem →The bee through these known alfeys hums,
Beating the diao^ with Its drums.
Then lowers their drowsy eyelids raise.
Read full poem →Cram their insides till they waddle on short legs
Under the drums of bellies, hams of fat.
Kill your hogs with a knife slit under the ear.
Read full poem →Southerners mourn for Lee, their Christian hero; the nation
mourns for Grant, who saved the Union. Muffle the drums,
drape the colors, guard the tent. ‘Soldiers, sleep, thy war-
Read full poem →When they buried my soldier son
To the call of trumpets and the sound of drums
My heart broke beneath the weight
Read full poem →Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes,
I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums,
That you may hail anew the bird and rose