Yarrow Stalks

Famous quotes containing the words yarrow and/or stalks:

““O haud your tongue, my father dear,
An’ dinna grieve your Sarah;
A better lord was never born
Than him I lost on Yarrow.”
—Unknown. The Dowie Houms o’ Yarrow (l. 53–56)

“Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale,”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)