drooped

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Vesper-like face, its shadows bright With meanings of sequestered light; Drooped with shamefast sanctities She purely fears eyes cannot miss, Yet would blush to know she IS.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

"Drooped" wasn't precisely the word; actually the wire had been bent into its position and stayed that way.

From Tight Squeeze by Ing, Dean Charles

Here grebe and gull and heavy glede Passed eastward far away, The while the wind, with slackened speed, Drooped with the dying Day.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

The "Ode to Liberty" closes on the same note:— As a far taper fades with fading night; As a brief insect dies with dying day, My song, its pinions disarrayed of might, Drooped.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

The wreath, Faded yet still alive thro' ocean's breath, Drooped o'er his brows.

From The Rose of Dawn A Tale of the South Sea by La Farge, John