Read full poem →So, forced from engines, lead itself can fly,
And ponderous slugs move nimbly through the sky.
Sure Bavius copied Maevius to the full,
Dictionary Entry
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
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Poetry examples for “slugs”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—
The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—