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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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tail end

Part of SpeechnounUsed In Literature ↓

The hindmost part of anything (a person, animal, or object), the butt, buttocks; hindquarters, rump.

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Poetry examples for tail end

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

country-wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight

evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream. Mirage-grey at the

bottom of their granite canyons, the hot streets wavered in the sun,

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