Read full poem →One sings the fair; but songs no longer move;
No rat is rhymed to death, nor maid to love:
In love's, in nature's spite, the siege they hold,
Dictionary Entry
A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ratliver ratbrain ratrace ratkidney ratrat adultrat whiterat isolated
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Poetry examples for “rat”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For the grey rat found the gold thirteen
Huddled away in the dark,
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Read full poem →That catches and destroys him,
As I was bitten by a rat
While demonstrating my patent trap,
Read full poem →Who made him human when he might have been
A rat, and so been wholly in accord
With any other creature we abhorred
Read full poem →Inferential
The Rat
Rahel to Varnhagen
Read full poem →SQUIRREL AND THE PRAIRIE DOG
HOW THE TURTLE FOOLED THE BUSH RAT
HOW THE TURTLE TRICKED THE TIGER
Read full poem →For the grey rat found the gold thirteen
Huddled away in the dark,
Read full poem →But this poor little cat _25
Only wanted a rat,
To stuff out its own little maw;