Read full poem →Fogs have swoln too thick for steel to slice,
Cloud and mud have soiled with grime and umber
Earth and heaven, defaced as souls with vice,
Dictionary Entry
A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.
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Common Phrases
. umberbrown umberumber burntumber rawumber number humber dark
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Poetry examples for “umber”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Not anything but dreams.
Brother of dusk and umber.
Read full poem →is always a variety either of orange or purple. It never can be
represented by umber, unless altered by contrast.' It is curious how
far the significance of this remark extends, how exquisitely it