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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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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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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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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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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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I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
(William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), U.S. poet. The Great Figure (l. 3-6). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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