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noun
Rowen  n.  (Called also rowet, rowett, rowings, roughings)  
1.
A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. "Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes."
2.
The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. (Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.)





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"Rowen" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfected rhythms the spirit of universal brotherhood that underlies all genuine poetry. His 'Airs from Arcady' (1884) achieved a success unusual for a volume of poems; and the love lyrics and patriotic songs of his later volume, 'Rowen,' maintain the high level of the earlier book. The great mass of his poems is still buried in the back numbers of the magazines, from which the best are to be rescued in a new volume. If his place is not among the greatest of our time, he has produced a sufficient body of fine verse to rescue his ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various


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