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Swinging
clusters of red, the hedges are full of them,
red-currant red, a graceful
ornament or a merry smile.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Victors.")
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Her breasts under her gown
are cold,
for a flower has grown,
murex-red
on the red gown.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Electra-Orestes.")
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Where the slow river
meets the tide,
a red swan lifts red wings
and darker beak.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Leda.")
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Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
(Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), British poet. "Greater Love," (l. 1-2) (written 1917), publ. In The Poems of Wilfred Owen, ed. Edmund Blunden (1931).
Opening lines.)
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I have forgotten much, but still remember
The poinsettia's red, blood-red in warm December.
(Claude McKay (1889-1948), U.S.-Jamaican poet. Flame-Heart (l. 9-10). . .
Caroling Dusk; an Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets. Countee Cullen, ed. (1927) Harper & Brothers.)
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Red river, red river,
Slow flow heat is silence
No will is still as a river
Still.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.Nborn—British poet, critic. "Virginia.")
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Papooses crying on the wind's long mane
Screamed red skin dynasties that fled the brain,
(Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. The Bridge. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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their red cloaks
wrapped tight to the bone
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "October.")
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Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in
November
(Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Cool Tombs (l. 3). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)
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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown,
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. poet, essayist. Each and All (l. 1). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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