Read full poem →The Mystic
The Grasshopper
Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
Dictionary Entry
A mostly herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera, noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation; they are related to but distinct from crickets.
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Common Phrases
. grasshoppersparrow grasshopperpueblo grasshopperwarbler grasshopperplague grasshoppergrasshopper greengrasshopper migratory
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Poetry examples for “grasshopper”
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Read full poem →The Mystic
The Grasshopper
Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
Read full poem →The Mystic
The Grasshopper
Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
Read full poem →The Mystic
The Grasshopper
Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
Read full poem →The Mystic
The Grasshopper
Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
Read full poem →You should have died at the apples' dropping,
When the grasshopper comes to trouble,
And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble,
Read full poem →Yet little good hath got, and much less gain.
Such pleasance makes the grasshopper so poor,
And lig so laid, when winter doth her strain.
Read full poem →shines so bright,
And the grasshopper works at his sewing-machine
So hard. Here's one on my hand, mother, look;
Read full poem →From the corn-fields shrill and ceaseless
Sang the grasshopper, Pah-puk-keena; 160
And the guests of Hiawatha,
Read full poem →Ozawa’beek, a round piece of brass or copper in the Game of the Bowl
Pah-puk-kee’na, the grasshopper
Pau’guk, death