| 单词 | rowan |
| 例句 | Hundreds of pounds of denatured iron that alchemists would have fought over The mayor nodded eagerly and singsonged, “Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Gurgi, sniffing hungrily, ran ahead and disappeared into a stand of rowans. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I am wearing my necklace of rowan berries, but they are no protection against the magic of the geas. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Valerian lifts my necklace of rowan berries from his pocket and smirks at me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, he could not quite overcome his surprise when, after a short while, they indeed came upon a swift running brook winding its way through a stand of rowans. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Dear God, no. There were just these five. Still, we have to burn and bury them, just to be sure. I already cut the wood we’ll need: ash and rowan.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If I weren’t wearing a string of rowan berries, he could ensorcell me so that I thought dirt was some kind of delicacy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Just like the children’s song: Let me tell you what to do. Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too— “Yes indeed,” the bundled man said dryly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Just as he reached the little lawn among the rowans he overtook him, toiling uphill, panting and calling, Frodo! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “A jar of rowan berries in the window—if there’s no rowan in the window I won’t be welcome.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Valerian points to the rowan necklace that dangles around my throat, dried red berries threaded onto a long silver chain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Above these the hobbits saw thickets of birch and rowan, and beyond them dark climbing pinewoods. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I even have a new necklace of rowan berries, sewn by Tatterfell and worn because there was no way she could know I didn’t need it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For some reason he was always referred to as “The Threarah”—perhaps because there happened to be only one threar, or rowan, near the warren, from which he took his name. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though it never worked, even though I wore a strand of rowan berries everywhere after that, it was all I could do for months not to strike him to the floor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In olden days the residents of Whitehaven tied bunches of rowan onto their front doors to ward off the witches at this time of year. Cumbria is the place to boggle your Hallowe'en mind 2012-10-29T10:33:55Z Summer's back, but outside the window thrushes, wrens and blue tits are gorging on rowan berries. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z They used to plant rowan trees to ward off witches, she is told. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #11 – Vera 2012-06-11T13:04:18Z Thrushes perch in flocks on rowan trees / Everything seen and known before. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z Reinforcing the sweet’s bitter almond note are some of the flavors of Finland, including meadowsweet, an aromatic flower, and rowan berry. Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong But crouch down, and the horizon is fuzzy with young trees: downy birch, rowan, and plump little Scots pines. Rewilding: How Trees for Life are renewing the Highlands 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Surrounded by sea and hills, rowan trees, hawthorn and holly, it had a fragrant compost loo-with-a-view. 'My best travel discovery of 2016' 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Fortunately, rowan is not part of the ash family and is unaffected by ash dieback. Ash dieback reaches Cumbria - a county where the tree plays a special part in history and folklore 2012-11-13T10:34:18Z Magic wands were made by taking a stick of rowan and tying some red thread around the end. Ash dieback reaches Cumbria - a county where the tree plays a special part in history and folklore 2012-11-13T10:34:18Z Reinforcing the sweet’s bitter almond note are some of the flavors of Finland, including meadowsweet, an aromatic flower, and rowan berry. Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong Such tales ensured communities developed a healthy respect for the trees in their neighbourhood - and helped educate folk about the difference between ash, rowan, oak and others. Ash dieback reaches Cumbria - a county where the tree plays a special part in history and folklore 2012-11-13T10:34:18Z Another friend, who lives in Austria, describes a clear spirit called Vogelbeerbaum schnapps, made from the European mountain ash, or rowan . Your trees could be getting birds tipsy 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The moose mostly ate birch, rowan and willow trees. Hungry moose fingered as possible factor in climate change 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Many parts of the UK have seen an abundance of seeds and nuts such as acorns, beech masts, rowan berries and elderberries including the east of England, North and Northern Ireland. 2022 will be warmest year ever for UK, Met Office says 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z We've planted everything from hawthorn and rowan trees, to cherries and pears. My job: What it's like digging graves for a living 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Flavored with Scottish rowan berry among other botanicals. Gin has gone global, with appealing new styles and flavors that stretch its very definition 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z It is a member of one of the of the most diverse tree groups in Europe - the Sorbus trees, also known as rowan or whitebeams. Menai whitebeam: Bangor University to protect endangered tree 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z The children presented the monarch with two rowan trees that will be planted as part of the Queen's Green Canopy, a UK-wide tree planting initiative to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee next year. Change needed to tackle climate crisis, Queen says 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The secluded patch of ground is now a summery enclosure of pink, purple and yellow, with bell heather, ling and gorse flowers; rowans are laden in scarlet berries and stunted brambles creep across the banks. Country diary: a visit to the little haven of Pleasure Piece 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z We dug up the lawn and ditched the flower beds about 10 years ago and planted UK native species, such as a field maple, whitebeam and rowan. Wildlife through the window: what readers have spotted during lockdown 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring. The end of farming? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The main species of trees involved are alder, willow, rowan, birch, aspen and Scots pine. Wildlife project to see one million trees planted 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Species highlighted include the horse chestnut, which is declining across Europe, and most of almost 200 trees in the family that includes the rowan and mountain-ash. 'Alarming' extinction threat to Europe's trees 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Scape said the forest was at its peak about 10,000 to 7,000 years ago and was a rich mix of birch, hazel, willow, aspen, rowan, oak, Scots pine, alder, ash and elm. 'Incredibly rare' find in prehistoric forest 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z St Petersburg Council said it understood why, after a severe winter, the park keepers "wanted to try to save the rowans and not uproot them while a chance still remained". Fake branches mean dismissal from Russian competition - BBC News 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Alder and ash are the main tree species but there are also bird cherry and hazel and small numbers of wych elm, gean, holly, rowan and elder. Log theory for Nessie sightings 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Clockwise from left: birch, Scots pine, wych elm, rowan A public consultation on a national tree for Scotland is to be launched. Consultation on Scots national tree 2013-09-02T23:12:33Z Berried branches of the rowan Rifled in the wizard wind— Clan and generation leave me, Lonely on the heath behind. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves. Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z Strange that the mountain ash, the rowan tree, should be held in horror by witches. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z Most common in cultivation is the European mountain ash called in England the rowan tree. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Here is the porch of a house in which surely superstition still lingers, for the porch, and even the windows, are surrounded with honeysuckle and rowan. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z At noon I came down a bit water that tumbled in a linn, where rowans grew among the stones and the eddies were amber with the seeping from the peat. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z These rival in colour and appearance the wealth of red fruit on the rowan trees or mountain ashes. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z The churn, so often bewitched of its butter, is certain to withstand the evil eye when the churn-staff is manufactured of the rowan tree. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z Old superstitions cluster around the rowan tree in all rural sections. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z About her waist was a girdle of the sacred rowan, the feathery green leaves flickering dusky shadows upon her robe as she moved. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z See! how they flash and play As the rivulet does 'neath the rowan and birk; 'Tis a glance in which there's loving a-lurk; A glance that only is born on the brae. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z They will be primarily native broadleaf species, such as ash, oak, rowan, birch and hornbeam. Search under way for jubilee wood 2011-07-30T01:33:16Z Round about stand the red rowans and the stiff-necked flowers refusing to know that fall is here. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z One mountain ash of Japan is hardly distinguishable from our western species, and some authorities believe that our two native species are but varieties of the rowan tree of Europe. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The women are white as milk, with eyes like sloes, and lips like red rowans. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Near the ivy they found a rowan berry, and then went home taking the three things with them,—the blackbird's leg, the ivy leaf, and the rowan berry. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z Wordsworth's ballads are deep and clear as those mountain pools over which bends the rowan, and on which smiles the autumn sky, as on the fittest reflector of its own bright profundity and solemn clearness. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z "One winter's morning a few years ago, I detoured to see about 150 waxwings feeding on rowan berries," he recalled. 'Wildlife to work' survey begins 2011-06-09T14:15:39Z Starting from the rock, or planted here and there, were many of the ominous rowan trees, or witch-wood. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z A few yards away, beside a great boulder in the heather, a small rowan stood, flickering its feather-like shadows across the white wool of a ewe resting underneath. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Oisin now took out the rowan berry and asked: "Which is larger, this berry or the butter of one churning which you give me?" Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z It is a charming place, with deep wooded glens filled with what Northumbrians call rowan and gane trees, and carpeted with primroses and cowslips. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Two lovers sat where the rowan blows And all the grass is heavy and fine, By the gathering-place of the sea-swallows When the wind brings them over Tyne. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Its common name in Scotland is the rowan tree; it is well known by its clusters of white blossoms and succulent scarlet fruit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" A small cabbage-garden lay behind, and beyond it the mossy edge of a wood of rowans and birches broke steeply in bracken and loneroid. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z “The delicate, airy tree of the Druids, the rowan with its berries, this burn; but avoid the weak tree, burn not the slender hazel.” Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race You, I see, but now handle the rowan freely, and pass it to and fro, as never could you have done had your soul known unholy tampering.' The Unknown Sea “How dare you, woman?” he cried; but she flung a rowan berry at him. The Little Minister The merry maidens four have ranged them in a row, Between each lovely couple a stately rowan stem, And away in mazes wavy, like skimming birds they go, Oh, never caroll'd bird like them! Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry At last he could neither roll himself nor the wheel; he dropped down on the grass, red as a cluster of rowan berries, his eyes fixed in their sockets, his mouth wide open. Magnhild Dust And if you hear beneath the rowan tree A howling wolf, the sound spells luck to thee, And luck shall helmed warriors bring to thee, If thou such warriors art the first to see. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes Again she entreated against temerity, and for answer he taught her of a lonely spot, asking her to carry the threaded rowan there, and to wait his coming. The Unknown Sea Or clap my wicked hands to fright the finches from the rowan? The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II The leaves were changing colour upon the birch trees, upon the rowans. Bye-Ways The rowan bends wailing under the breeze which the oak defies. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. A bush of rowan, black sloes, Dusky blackthorns, Plenty of food, acorns, pure berries, Bare flags. Ancient Irish Poetry In heats of exasperation she longed to scatter and crush the rowan; yet the thread crept on steadily through her hands, inch by inch, till that misery was over. The Unknown Sea The holly floated to the side, And the leaf on the rowan pale; Alas! no spell could charm the tide, Nor the lance of Liddesdale. Border Raids and Reivers The rowan trees, with their clusters of scarlet berries, hung over it, and great clumps of ferns stood on either hand. Under False Pretences A Novel Do you call to mind a place, Mackellar—it’s a little below Eagles—where the burn runs very deep under a wood of rowans? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) There was nothing more to be seen of the road, nothing whatever, no ditch at the side of it, no telegraph poles, no small rowan trees. The Son of His Mother He knew he was dying, and, touching the ended rowan, rendered thanks that it was to be there. The Unknown Sea The merry maidens four have ranged them in a row, Between each lovely couple a stately rowan stem; And away in mazes wavy, like skimming birds, they go— Oh, never carroled bird like them! Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales You could not really see it from the street: only above the first story and blurred, at that, by rowan trees. The Prisoner A heap of withered boughs was piled, Of juniper and rowan wild, Mingled with shivers from the oak,note Rent by the lightning's recent stroke. Lady of the Lake The rowans are the fruit of the mountain ash, which never are ripe till harvest. The Proverbs of Scotland Then she wound the silly rowan in brown moss, knotted it up in her scarf, and cloaked herself, and went out on her fool's errand. The Unknown Sea The Hawthorn stands between the ashes tall and slim, Like matron with her twin grand-daughters at her knee; The rowan berries cluster o’er her low head, gray and dim, In ruddy kisses sweet to see. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Direct the children to look for grosbeaks in the pine and rowan trees, where they may be seen feeding on the seeds. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study And remember, 'The dewdrop that hangs from the rowan bough Is fine as the proudest rose can show.' Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls "Tell her," said Little Fawn, "that often I saw a rowan berry that was bigger as her pat of butter." The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said He declined impatience to her better counsel; and when he had got the rowan and belted it safe, to the praise of her providence he drank eagerly and ate. The Unknown Sea Aren't you lonely on Sundays in that house with only the holly bush and the rowan and the apple-trees that bear no fruit? Moor Fires And on the mountain-sides the rowan stood up like a proud enemy, and the ash bent humbly, and the dwarf oak crouched under fury. The Wind Bloweth Below and around on the cliff-sides, the rich foliage of holly and dwarf oak, ivy, and rowan with its burning berries, was transformed into a mass of warm colour and shining surfaces. The Daughters of Danaus "And I believe you when you say you saw an ivy leaf as big as my barley loaf and a rowan berry as big as my pat of butter." The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Muttering, he reached over to the rowan and absently fingered it, while Rhoda urged on him what she knew of reason. The Unknown Sea Hang on this rowan; hast thou not thy girdle Meet for thy throat? Ionica And the shadows ... the delicate tracery of the ash-tree, and the tall rowans, and the massive blue shadows of the cliffs ... a golden and silver land.... The Wind Bloweth I have seen the red and green Of fir and rowan tree, And heard the din of flooded linn, With bleating on the lea. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines A tree or two begins to shake its tresses on the horizon—a birch or a rowan. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Astray against his face he felt the thread of rowan. The Unknown Sea Why is the mountain ash, or rowan tree, seen growing in almost every garden, when not another tree adorns the landscape or shelters the family dwelling? The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The lake, sheltered under the cloak of the hills, is six miles long, and all around its coasts are things of beauty, green velvet mosses, dark broom and heather-clad hills, with rowan trees interspersed throughout. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway There was a cluster o' young rowans with broom and gorse thick under them. Robin Who dare declare that he ever saw our mouth dry? or sensible of a bitter taste, since we gave over munching rowans? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 May be they lie who swear that never a twig of the rowan goes in your boat. The Unknown Sea It’s well to keep a civil tongue with witches, If you’ve no sliver of rowan in your pocket: Though it won’t need any witch, my jackadandy, To clap the clicking jimmies round your wrists. Krindlesyke The bent-grass heaves not, the couch-grass quails not or cowers; The wind's kiss frets not the rowan's or aspen's hair. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Cliff over cliff for its sides, with rowan and pendent birch-boughs, Here it lies, unthought of above at the bridge and pathway, Still more concealed from below by wood and rocky projection. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art Oh, dig him a grave by the red rowan tree, Where the spring moss grows softer than fringes of foam! Successful Recitations There you may find shade in summer, and great blaeberries and ripening rowans in the wane of August. The Half-Hearted Then they built a ship without delay, laying the keel with wood from the rowan tree. English Fairy Tales This tree was the mountain ash, which was ever after held sacred; and when these nations were converted to Christianity, they did not fall away from their belief in the sanctity of the rowan tree. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century All about the brim of it grew hawthorns and rowans and hazel-trees. The Primrose Ring The rowan is the tree of the magicians, and its berries are for poets. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland She saw the warm ledge of rock with the rowan berries above. The Half-Hearted And they made masts of rowan wood also, and oars likewise; and, so furnished, set forth. English Fairy Tales If a sheep dropped a dead lamb, the proper precaution to take was to place the lamb upon a rowan tree, and this would prevent the whole flock from a repetition of the mishap. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century Apples, crimson nuts, and rowan berries are specifically said to be the food of the gods in the tale of Diarmaid and Grainne. The Religion of the Ancient Celts And the Salmon of Knowledge, the eating of which gave Finn his pre-eminence, swam in a green pool, still and deep, over which hung a rowan tree that shed its red berries on the stream. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland And then he bade him cut open the body, and in it he found a rowan berry, the biggest he had ever seen, and an ivy leaf that was bigger than the biggest griddle. Gods and Fighting Men Green be thy leaves, thou "tree of troth," And thy rowan berries red, Where he has sworn that holy oath, If he stand to what he has said. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. The rowan tree possessed a wonderful influence against all evil machinations of witchcraft. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century A similar tree growing on earth—a rowan guarded by a dragon, is found in the tale of Fraoch, who was bidden to bring a branch of it to Ailill. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The delicate, airy tree of the druids, the rowan with its berries, this burn; but avoid the weak tree, burn not the slender hazel. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland "Who is that sweet-worded man," she said then, "with the dark hair, and cheeks like the rowan berry, on the left side of Oisin, son of Finn?" Gods and Fighting Men This man did not wait for an invitation to enter, but, having made fast his reins to the branch of a neighbouring rowan tree, walked in and sat down, with a mere "Good day." Stories of the Border Marches The rowan tree was held sacred by the Druids, and is often found among their stone monuments. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century The church then subsided into solemn quietness, disturbed only by the chattering of the sparrows on the rowan tree outside. Abbe Mouret's Transgression It was a little cluster of rowan berries. The Song of the Blood-Red Flower Now the provision the Men of Dea had brought with them from the Land of Promise was crimson nuts, and apples, and sweet-smelling rowan berries. Gods and Fighting Men No spell was known to them that could work against a ship whose masts were made of the rowan tree. Stories of the Border Marches It was also believed that a rowan tree growing in a field protected the cattle against being struck by lightning. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century A second sparrow followed; and soon from all the boughs of the rowan tree came others that calmly hopped about the flags. Abbe Mouret's Transgression "The very colour of the rowans!" he cries—as if the girl had chosen that very one from a great store, though he knows well enough it was likely the only one she had. The Song of the Blood-Red Flower Round the cabin stood half a dozen mountain ashes, as the rowans, inimical to witches, are there called. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 The exciseman's horse still stood where his master had left him, hitched to a rowan tree a few yards from the door. Stories of the Border Marches The belief in the potency of the rowan tree to ward off evil is no doubt a survival of ancient tree worship. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century The wicken-tree is the mountain-ash or rowan free, which is a very efficient, or at all events a very popular protective against witchcraft. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul When I saw you, you were like a young red rowan on the hillside. The Song of the Blood-Red Flower His coat of mail was sword-proof by a spell of enchantment, and he wore in his helmet rowan and holly leaves; but these would all be of no avail against the power of running water. Northumberland Yesterday and To-day Do you call to mind a place, Mackellar - it's a little below Engles - where the burn runs very deep under a wood of rowans. Master of Ballantrae Sheer from the heather ran the white streak till it lost itself among the reddening rowans and the yellow birks of the wood. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies At the head there was a tiny clachan, nestled among birches and rowans, where a tawny burn wound to the sea. Mr. Standfast "Or perhaps you have seen so many others since—rowans and berries and flowers—that you can't, remember one from another?" The Song of the Blood-Red Flower No. But as she fell, one foot was left outside the threshold, so that the rowan branch could not take care of it. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood The cresses drink—the water flows—and round Upon the slopes the mountain rowans meet, And 'neath the brushwood plant their gnarled feet, Intwining slowly where the creepers twine. Poems He hung a swing for them between the two rowan trees in the field, taking care to pack plenty of rag under the rope so as not to injure the tree. Look Back on Happiness Here and there among the pines are rowans, with ripe coral berries; now the berries are falling, heavy clusters striking the earth. Wanderers Then they set to work and built a long ship, and its keel they made of the rowan tree. English Fairy Tales Hazel was there, and like a scarlet-berried rowan on the sky she held the gaze by the perfection of the picture she made. Gone to Earth But Aronsen had a garden, with a fence all round, and currant bushes and asters and rowans and planted trees—ay, a real garden. Growth of the Soil They were already behind the outhouses, then behind the two great rowan trees; they hurried lest Mrs. Brede should see them. Look Back on Happiness And the clusters from the rowans drop with a sullen thud and bury themselves in the moss. Wanderers When he reached the keep, he went off to the witch queen's bower, and when he saw her, he touched her with a twig of a rowan tree. English Fairy Tales A further piece of weather-lore tells us:— "Many rains, many rowans; Many rowans, many yawns," The meaning being that an abundance of rowans—the fruit of the mountain-ash—denote a deficient harvest. The Folk-lore of Plants He gathered nigh unto a pint of nuts which gave him some relief; and, as he passed outward again to the pine region, he found a rowan tree loaded with crimson fruit. The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp The sand at their feet alternated in veins of umber brown, and ashes of roses; while the vermillion of the rowan berries made a vivid and gorgeous contrast to the glaucous green of the leafage. Annette, the Metis Spy I stole away up to the big ant-heap in the wood and watched the insects as long as I could see; afterwards, I sat listening to the falling cones and clusters of rowan berries. Wanderers Then the imps went forth to meet Childe Wynd's ship, but when they got near, they found they had no power over the ship, for its keel was made of the rowan tree. English Fairy Tales On the Continent the tree is in equal repute, and in Norway and Denmark rowan branches are usually put over stable doors to keep out witches, a similar notion prevailing in Germany. The Folk-lore of Plants Wilder the roar of the surf that beat; Whose was the form that it bore to her feet Swayed with the swell of the unquiet sea, While the raven croaked in the rowan tree. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems On the side towards the village, the slope upwards was of soft green turf, scattered with hazel, rowan, and alder bushes, and full of singing birds. A Book of Golden Deeds But when I came up they decided that the wild hops were over, and there were no rowan berries left now, nor any richly coloured leaves. Wanderers She had a heap o' rowan berries stuck in her hair, and, I think, she had on a green wrapper and a red shawl. The Little Minister Thus, among these, the rowan would take its place, as would the common hazel, from which the miner's divining-rod is always cut. The Folk-lore of Plants And watcheth the ebbing and flowing tide, But her eye is dim, and the sea is wide; The fisherman's sail and the cloud flies free And the bird is mute in the rowan tree. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems He planted a rowan tree by his porch when he was first inducted into the manse, and it has grown up with him and he loves it as if it were a human being. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel You know perhaps that when she arrived the work-people had got up a beautiful parasol for her, white, with a deep fringe and spray of rowan. Nuttie's Father "How dare you, woman?" he cried; but she flung a rowan berry at him. The Little Minister The small pond was shut in with rowans and thickets of alder and blackberry bushes, and on the pond itself some water-lilies and other aquatic plants were growing. Herb of Grace With the sea-drenched locks and the pulseless breast And the close-shut lips which thine have pressed And the wide sad eyes that heed not thee, While the raven croaks in the rowan tree. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems In front, in groves of birch and rowan, smoked the first houses of a tiny village. Huntingtower Soft small flames on rowan and larch Break forth as laughter on lips that said Nought till the pulse in them beat love's march. A Century of Roundels It appears that a hoop wreathed with rowan and marsh marigold, and bearing suspended within it two balls, is still carried on May Day by villagers in some parts of Ireland. The Golden Bough Do you remember that low gray house, with the rowan tree over the gate, just by Elizabeth's Home of Rest, where little Kit died? Herb of Grace Into the harbour the fisher boats ride, But two went out with the ebbing tide, Without sail, without oar, full fast and free, And the raven croaks in the rowan tree. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems Whoever ate one of these rowan berries his hunger and his weariness left him in a moment. The King of Ireland's Son I had scaled the peak where grows the stunted rowan, and I sat down to look down on the other side of the gorge. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest A heap of withered boughs was piled, Of juniper and rowan wild, Mingled with shivers from the oak, Rent by the lightning's recent stroke. The Lady of the Lake No wonder that the insipid little berries. related to apples, pears, and other luscious fruits, should share with a cousin, the mountain ash, or rowan, the reproachful name of dogberry. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The boys halloo them on—"Ohoo-oo-oo!"—and swing their ringed rowan staves, and spit red juice of the alder bark that they are chewing as men chew tobacco. The Great Hunger He went above where the rowan berries were, and bending down he picked two of them and put them into his mouth. The King of Ireland's Son The declivity was clothed sparsely with hazel shrubs, thorns, whins and thistles; and now and then a stunted fir or rowan tree or a group of white-stemmed birks was stoutly rooted on a shelving ledge. Greyfriars Bobby The clustered rowan berries red And Autumn's may, the clematis, They droop above your dreaming head, And these, and all things must you miss? Rhymes a la Mode The next morning the Old Hall dropped like a ripe rowan berry into our very laps. Penelope's Irish Experiences It was September, and all about the wooded hills stood yellow, and the cornfields were golden and the rowan berries blood-red. The Great Hunger Fergus marched at the head of his troop with the rowan berry still hanging from his mouth. The King of Ireland's Son The torrent glints under the rowan red, And shakes the bracken spray: What joy on the heather to bound, old hound, Over the hills and away. Poems — Volume 1 |
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