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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

a king's accession to a confederacy

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derive

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/dəˈɹaɪv/Used In Literature ↓

To obtain or receive (something) from something else.

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Poetry examples for derive

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your lordship's most constant and diffusive goodness, from which we did

for many calm years derive a subsistence to ourselves, and protection to

the scene (now withered, and condemned, as we fear, to a long winter and

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the title of Elah Gabalah. Hereafter a very notorious Roman

Emperor will institute this worship in Rome, and thence derive a

cognomen, Heliogabalus. I dare say you would like to take a peep

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