Read full poem →(A little sense of wrong had touch’d her face
With color) turn’d to me with “ As you will ;
Heroic if you will, or what you will, 215
Dictionary Entry
The quality of light that makes things visible, like red, blue, or green.
In a Sentence
“The artist used bright colors to paint a vibrant landscape.”
Origin
From Old French 'colur', from Latin 'color'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “color”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →[X.—Neeroes and Rising Rents... - Aj) ltyy inte 38
x Unions and! the:-Color Line. . 2 Vee ae
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Read full poem →The panties were nearly always a different color and each time they
looked better.
Read full poem →darkest color together. Never was there such a big
black-throated guzzling of red wine, white wine, and
Read full poem →University and later earned a master's degree from Harvard. His ir |
collection of poetry, Color, was published in 1925. This was followey
by Copper Sun (1927), The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1927), and The
Read full poem →The gracious city swept across the line;
Oblivious of the color of my skin,
Forgetting that I was an alien guest,
Read full poem →Your voice is the color of a robin’s breast,
And there’s a sweet sob in it like rain--still rain in the night.
Read full poem →Harper & Brothers for poems from Color and Copper Sun
by Countee Cullen
Read full poem →the United -tates to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color,
or previous condition of servitude.