shrivels

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The Shadow glides between; The garland's vernal green Shrivels to greyness in its spectral hand.

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892 by Various

Love is no faint exotic made to bloom In the close summer of a glassy frame, That at the first breath of the unquelled air Shrivels up like a parchment in the flame.

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard

Ay! there are times when the great universe, Like cloth in some unskilful dyer's vat, Shrivels into a handbreadth, and perchance That time is now!

From La Sainte Courtisane by Wilde, Oscar