droops

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The lady bears two earrings, one of which, Dangling displaced, in Dali's playful mode, Droops from the center of her clefted forehead.

From Time Magazine Archive

At dawn, when ev’ry grassy blade Droops with a diamond at its head, At ev’n, when beans their fragrance shed I’ th’ rustling gale, Ye maukins whiddin thro’ the glade, Come join my wail.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

My soul is wrapped in midnight gloom, And all that charmed my heart before, Droops earthward to the silent tomb, Where darkness dwells for evermore.'

From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Moodie, Susanna

The tender corn upon the lea Droops in her goddess gloom when she Cries for her lost Persephone.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

II Where the thin light slipping sweet Dimples prints of Fairy feet On the white-rose blooms, One dim blossom delicate Droops a face all pale with hate, Dead with sick perfumes.

From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Cawein, Madison Julius