Read full poem →Winds have risen to wreck, snows fallen to cumber,
Ships and chariots, trapped like rats or mice,
Since my king first smiled, whose years now number
Dictionary Entry
A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ratsfed ratsrats femalerats malerats adult
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Poetry examples for “rats”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →They chaffer, and swarm.
They gnaw like rats,
And the foundations of the Cathedral are honeycombed.
Read full poem →II beer, on which thou werl starving, in common
cribbed rats and limping mice?
Face. Mighty well, mighty well, master Subtle.
Read full poem →And dogs and boys with sticks
Wait, murderous, for the rats that leave the ruin'd ricks;
And, all the bags being fill'd and rank'd fivefold, they pour
Read full poem →As this that Job Knight built in '54,
Built to keep corn for rats and men.
Now there's fowls in the roof, pigs on the floor.
Read full poem →And we who do the fiction of our share
Say less of rats and rather more of men.
Read full poem →Higgledy piggledy, packed we lie,
Rats in a hamper, swine in a stye,
Wasps in a bottle, frogs in a sieve,
Read full poem →And as for what your brain bewilders,
If I can rid your town of rats
Will you give me a thousand guilders?" 95