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)

    On the bare upland pasture there had spread
    O’ernight ‘twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread
    And straining cables wet with silver dew.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)