Part of Speech: Verb

Definition: bend one’s head or body forward and downward

Source: Words at Dictionary

Found in “Persephone, Falling” by Rita Dove, Line 3

“flowers, one unlike all the others!  She pulled, / stooped to pull harder”

The word “Stooped” means to bend one’s head. Although I have heard this word before it was difficult to put the definition in the line because it was a word that you seem to use but cannot exactly define it.

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: invariably precise or correct: perfect

Source: Words at Dictionary

Found in “America” by Claude McKay, Line 13

“Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,/Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand”

The word “unerring means perfect, it helps me understand that the author was describing a hand to be perfect and precise.