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E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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verb

To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.

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p

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/piː/Used In Literature ↓

Abbreviation of penny; pence.

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Poetry examples for p

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

the dried root or flush the faded leaf of love; the myrtle being past all

comfort of soft rain or helpful sun. So in the _Rose-Tree_ (vol. ii. p.

60), when for the sake of a barren material fidelity to his "rose" of

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