Read full poem βOver the rose-crowned land!
The year of the rose is brief;
From the first blade blown to the sheaf,
Dictionary Entry
brief
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/bΙΉiΛf/Word FrequencyNot availableCurriculum FrequencyLess common (1)Used In Literature βA writ summoning one to answer to any action.
In a Sentence
βStudents can use brief to explain A writ summoning one to answer to any action..β
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Poetry examples for βbriefβ
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Read full poem βMy harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
Read full poem βMarch with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
Read full poem βAnd thou, too, whosoe'er thou art,
That readest this brief psalm,
As one by one thy hopes depart,
Read full poem βWithin his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.