Read full poem →"Farewell, Corinna," cried thy dying tongue.
Elysium hath a wood of holm-trees black,
Whose earth doth not perpetual green grass lack. 50
Dictionary Entry
(obsolete outside dialectal) The holly.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. holmoak holmet holmcultram holmoaks holms holmholm hanyaholm celeste
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Poetry examples for “holm”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Where home the cart-house tolters with the swain.
Or padded holm, where village boys resort,
Bawling enraptur’d o’er their evening sport,
Read full poem →Adieu! Lochmaben's gates sae fair,
The Langholm-holm where birks there be;
Adieu! my ladye, and only joy,