Nought but bright prophetic laurel! Laurel over eyes and brows,
Over limbs and over bosom,
Laurel leaves and laurel boughs!英文原著 · 《Poems-Volume 1》
What a lovely country, but for the heat of noon and the long wearisomeness of the way!--not that the distance was great, but miles and miles more than expected. How charming the open glades of the river, how refreshing the great forests of oak and chestnut, and what a panorama of beauty the banks of rhododendrons, now intermingled with the lighter pink and white of the laurel! In this region the rhododendron is called laurel) and the laurel (the sheep-laurel of New England) is called ivy.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-4》
SERAPION. Set out before your doors The images of all your sleeping fathers, With laurels crowned; with laurels wreath your posts, And strew with flowers the pavement; let the priests Do present sacrifice; pour out the wine, And call the gods to join with you in gladness.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
Laurel is green for a season, and Love is fair for a day, But Love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May.英文原著 · 《Letters to Dead Authors》
Lay this laurel on the one
Too intrinsic for renown. Laurel! veil your deathless tree, --
Him you chasten, that is he!英文原著 · 《Poems-2》
Love - feast - be merry while on earth, Such, Grave, should be thy moral! Ev'n Death himself is friends with Mirth, And veils the tomb with laurel. (At that time, in Italy, the laurel was frequently planted over the dead.)英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
I don't know many people who'd threaten me behind the laurels.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
'It's shaping up to be a tight battle for the winner's laurels.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
He lives at 74 Laurel Drive in Middletown.美剧 · 《Friends》