Read full poem →We'll to the woods no more,
The laurels are all cut,
The bowers are bare of bay
Dictionary Entry
Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. laurelslaurels freshlaurels new
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Poetry examples for “laurels”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →When prostitutes, or needy flatt'rers sue.
And see the chief! before him laurels borne; 15
Trophies from undeserving temples torn;
Read full poem →There in bright drops the crystal fountains play,
By laurels shielded from the piercing day:
Where Daphne, now a tree, as once a maid,
Read full poem →And Epicurus' lay inspired;
In vain your guiltless laurels stood
Unspotted long with human blood.
Read full poem →A bee in the laurels began to drone.
A loosened petal fluttered prone.
Read full poem →Tow'r equal heights. But happier Stratford, thoa^
With incontestcS laurels deck thy brow ;
Thy hard was thine unschooVd, and from thee brought
Read full poem →And battle thus is yet to wage,
So long let laurels be the meed
Of soldier as of poet sage;
Read full poem →Generals Wheeler, Lawton, Sumner, Kent, Duffield,
Chaffee, Wood and Bates, all won fresh laurels, engag-
ing personal y in the thickest of the fight. The intrepid
Read full poem →The sublime celestial bugler shall ring out the reveille,
Then shall march with brightest laurels, and with proud,
victorious tread,
Read full poem →the literature of the future, we are justly proud; we
feel sure that they will win fresh laurels, and attain to
still greater eminence in the literary world.