Read full poem →Strength and delicacy are here in perfect union. In like manner Post-
humus in Cymbeline, act ii, agitated by as violent a jealousy of his wife,
thus describes her seeming modesty :
Dictionary Entry
A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms
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. humuscontent humuslayer humushorizon humushumus soilhumus raw
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Poetry examples for “humus”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Había sido un arbusto desmedrado que prolonga sus filamentos hasta
encontrar el humus necesario en una tierra nueva. Y cómo me nutría!
Me nutría con la beatitud con que las hojas trémulas de clorófila