smoulder

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Great piles of fallen leaves Smoulder in every street And through the columned smoke a scarlet jet Of flame darts out and disappears.

From The Five Books of Youth by Hillyer, Robert

Smoulder, smōl′dėr, v.i. to burn slowly or without vent.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

I know him when the last red brands of day Smoulder away, And when the vernal showers Bring back the heart to all my valley flowers In the soft hours.

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford