Read full poem →Has tilted from the Ocean stream.
Light the Indies, laggard sun:
Happy bridegroom, day is done,
Dictionary Entry
One who lags behind; one who takes more time than is necessary or than the others in a group.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “laggard”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Thou yellow trumpeter of laggard Spring!
Thou herald of rich Summer's myriad flowers!
Read full poem →Nay, still shout 'Progress!' as if seven plagues
Should take the laggard who would stretch his legs.
Forward! glad rush of Gergesenian swine;
Read full poem →I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,--
“I’ll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed;
Read full poem →I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,--
"I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed;
Read full poem →Stopp'd in darkness in the court.
"--Ho, this way, ye laggard hunters!
To the hall! What sport? What sport?"--
Read full poem →You further and yet further look,
Learn that a laggard few would fain
Preserve your nook? . . .
Read full poem →The bride had consented, the gallant came late;
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.