"Beechen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Disert Bethel, By cold, pure Nore at peace to rest, Where noisy raids have never sullied The beechen forest's ...
— A Celtic Psaltery • Alfred Perceval Graves
... Sacred as when the bell of prayer Toll'd duly on the desert air, And crosses deck'd thy summits blue. Oft, like some lov'd romantic tale, Oft shall my weary mind recall, Amid the hum and stir of men, Thy beechen grove and waterfall, Thy ferry with its gliding sail, And ...
— Poems • Samuel Rogers
... careless laid, Play on your pipe beneath this beechen shade; While wretched we about the world must roam, And leave our pleasing fields and native home, Here at your ease you sing your amorous flame, And the wood rings with ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... the shadows start and glide; I hear soft, woodland feet; And who are they that deeper bide Where beechen twilights meet? What tranced beings smile On things I may not see? As with a dream they ...
— Path Flower and Other Verses • Olive T. Dargan
... with fields and cottages, And sweet in spring-time with the blooming plum, And white with apple-blossoms blown like snow. Beyond the plain a lower chain of hills, In summer gemmed with fields of golden grain Set in the emerald of the beechen woods. In other days the village school-house stood Below our cottage on a grassy mound That sloped away unto the river's marge; And on the slope a cluster of tall pines Crowning a copse of beech and evergreen. There in my boyhood ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... side of bacon, that hangs from a black beam; and cuts off a small portion from the chine that has been kept so long; and when cut, softens it in boiling water. In the meantime, with discourse they beguile the intervening hours; and suffer not the length of time to be perceived. There is a beechen trough there, that hangs on a peg by its crooked handle; this is filled with warm water, and receives their limbs to refresh them. On the middle of the couch, its feet and frame[86] being made of willow, is placed a cushion of soft sedge. This they cover with cloths, which they have not been accustomed ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso
... subtle thought's employ The golden magic clung, a light that shone And filled me with thy joy. Before me like a mist that streamed and fell All names and shapes of antique beauty passed In garlanded procession with the swell Of flutes between the beechen stems; and last, ...
— Lyrics of Earth • Archibald Lampman
... and evident anxiety to please her in every respect. On this Lucy dwelt, until Maddy's heart seemed to leap up and almost turn over in its casing, so fiercely it throbbed and ached with anguish. She was out in the beechen woods when she read the letter, and laying her face in the grass she sobbed as she ...
— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes |
