Read full poem →They are eyes, hundreds of eyes, round like marbles! Unwinking, for there
are no lids. Blue, black, gray, and hazel, and the irises are cased
in the whites, and they glitter and spark under the moon. The basket
Dictionary Entry
A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
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Common Phrases
eyes hazel. hazelnuts hazelnut hazelgrove hazelcarby hazelhazel witch
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Poetry examples for “hazel”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →FOR JOHN KEATS, APOSTLE OF BEAUTY 68
FOR HAZEL HALL, AMERICAN POET 69
FOR PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR 70
Read full poem →For cider, after school, in late September?
Or gather hazel nuts among the thickets
On Aaron Hatfield’s farm when the frosts begin?
Read full poem →Been left by November of leaves is torn
From hazel and thorn
And the greater trees. Throughout the copse
Read full poem →That leaves and berries fell into;
Once a dormouse dined there on hazel-nuts,
And grass and goose-grass seeds found soil and grew.
Read full poem →THERE they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots
That once were underwood of hazel and ash
In Jenny Pinks's Copse. Now, by the hedge
Read full poem →Though fresh-cut faggot ends
Of hazel made some amends
With a gleam as if flowers they had been.
Read full poem →Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush
Not far off in the oak and hazel brush,
Unseen. There was a scent like honeycomb
Read full poem →Hearkening to short-lived happy-seeming things
That we know naught of, in the hazel copse?
Or must I be content with discontent
Read full poem →The smoke of the traveller's-joy is puffed
Over hawthorn berry and hazel tuft.