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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (l. 15-16). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Follow the yellow brick road.
(E.Y. Harburg (1898-1981), U.S. songwriter. "We're Off to See the Wizard," The Wizard of Oz, Leo Feist, Inc. (1939).
Music composed by Harold Arlen (1905-1986).)
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Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow
(Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. The Fall of the House of Usher (l. 33-38). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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Tom: All right, boys. C'mon. Why don't you say I'm a yellow belly and a big mouth at that?
Shep: You yellow? Who thinks you're yellow? Did you hear what he said? A guy who's got the nerve to marry? That's more than Flash Gordon ever did.
(Billy Wilder (b. 1906), Austrian-born U.S. film director, producer, writer, and Charles Brackett (1892-1969), U.S. screenwriter. Tom (Ray Milland), Shep (Dennis O'Keefe), Arise My Love, as Tom prepares to leave war-torn Europe for married life in America (1940).)
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iris and lilac, birds
birds, yellow flowers
white flowers, the Diesel
does not let up dragging
the plow
(Charles Olson (1910-1970), U.S. poet. Variations Done for Gerald Van de Wiele (l. 13-17). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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The canoe and yellow birch, beech, maple, and elm are Saxon and Norman, but the spruce and fir, and pines generally, are Indian.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Chesuncook" (1858) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 120, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Road Not Taken (l. 1-4). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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Roach, foulest of creatures,
who attacks with yellow teeth
and an army of cousins big as shoes ...
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Cockroach.")
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
(L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), U.S. author. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 2 (1900).
The words do not appear thus in the film (1939), which features the song, Follow the Yellow Brick Road.)
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... and fierce in each disk
of coarse yellow the archaic
smile, almost
agony, almost
a boy's grin.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "For Floss.")
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