Read full poem →To cast them leafless round him: bring
No spray that ever buds in spring.
Dictionary Entry
A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
In a Sentence
“After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. budsbuds tastebuds flowerbuds lateralbuds axillarybuds limbbuds terminal
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Poetry examples for “buds”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Think, 'tis Vertumnus begs you to be kind:
So may no frost, when early buds appear,
Destroy the promise of the youthful year;
Read full poem →Sleek satin, swansdown, buds that play not
As yet with winds that play,
Read full poem →They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.
Read full poem →I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
Read full poem →crown of the steep sky's arch,
And the bold first buds of the whin wax golden, and witness arise
of the thorn and the larch:
Read full poem →Her breasts point outwards,
And the nipples are like buds of peonies.
Her flanks ripple as she plays,
Read full poem →The winter snows had bent its branches down,
The spring had swelled its buds with coming flowers,
Summer had run like fire through its veins,
Read full poem →and coffin palls. All stiff with rich embroidery, and stitched with
so much artistry, they seemed like spun and woven gems, or flower-buds
new-opened on their stems.
Read full poem →her slight stirring.
Her kisses are sharp buds of fire; and I burn back against her, a jewel
Hard and white; a stalked, flaming flower; till I break to