drooped

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The great hills rolled In silence to the deep: The gorse in waves of green and gold Perfumed their lonely sleep; And, at my feet, one elfin flower Drooped, blind with glories of the shower.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

Mourned bird and deer, and every flower Drooped fainting round the lonely bower.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Here grebe and gull and heavy glede Passed eastward far away, The while the wind, with slackened speed, Drooped with the dying Day.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

The "Ode to Liberty" closes on the same note:— As a far taper fades with fading night; As a brief insect dies with dying day, My song, its pinions disarrayed of might, Drooped.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

He fainted to hear us, young Alfonso, Drooped like an eagle with broken wing, But the cannon thundered: 'Valor, valor!'

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee