Read full poem →To lop the growth of the luxuriant year, 10
To decent forms the lawless shoots to bring,
And teach th' obedient branches where to spring.
Dictionary Entry
The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. shootsshoots youngshoots newshoots bambooshoots greenshoots tendershoots side
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Poetry examples for “shoots”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And all its varying Rain-bows die away.
_Wit_ shoots in vain its momentary fires,
The meteor drops, and in a flash expires.
Read full poem →Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
Read full poem →Of rich, brown earth he woos thee, makes thee fling
Thy green shoots up, inheriting the dowers
Of bending sky and sudden, sweeping showers,
Read full poem →A headlight searches a snowstorm.
A funnel of white light shoots from over the pilot of
the Pioneer Limited crossing Wisconsin.
Read full poem →What shall make their sap ascend
That they may put forth shoots?
Tips of tender green,
Read full poem →Saying, "Poet, here's a work beseeming thee."
O, woe is me! he never shoots but hits,
I burn, love in my idle bosom sits:
Read full poem →Were love the cause it's like I should descry him,
Or lies he close and shoots where none can spy him?
'Twas so; he strook me with a slender dart;