"Harken" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... many-fountain'd Ida, Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. For now the noonday quiet holds the hill: The grasshopper is silent in the grass: 25 The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead The purple flower droops: the golden bee Is lily-cradled: I alone awake. ...
— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson
... as well as frustration in her voice. "And you know of my shame then, Assha. For Lurgha came—on a bird he came, and he did even as he said he would. So now the village will make offerings to Lurgha and beg his favor, and the Mother will no more have those to harken to her words and offer her ...
— The Time Traders • Andre Norton
... exclaimed the Lady de Tilly, "another time we will speak of this. Harken, Amelie! I did not tell you that Pierre Philibert came with me to the gate of the Convent to see you. He would have entered, but the Lady Superior refused inexorably to admit him even to ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... Whate'er the spell, I harken and am dumb, Dream-touched, and musing in the tranquil morn; All woodland sounds—the pheasant's gusty drum, The mock-bird's fugue, the droning insect's hum— Scarce heard for that ...
— Songs from the Southland • Various
... marriages. We may not be aware of them; from our very familiarity with words we may overlook the fact that in instances uncounted their oneness has been welded by a linguistic minister or justice of the peace. But to read a single page or harken for thirty seconds to oral discourse with our minds intent on such states of wedlock is to convince ourselves that they abound. Consider this list of everyday words: somebody, already, disease, vineyard, unskilled, outlet, nevertheless, holiday, insane, resell, schoolboy, ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor
... and aboard her: So that ere the morning, from three of the clocke the day before, there had fifteene seuerall Armadas assayled her; and all so ill approued their entertainment, as they were by the breake of day, far more willing to harken to a composition, then hastily to make any more assaults or entries. But as the day encreased, so our men decreased: and as the light grew more and more, by so much more grewe our discomforts. For none appeared in sight but enemies, sauing one small ship ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, v. 7 - England's Naval Exploits Against Spain • Richard Hakluyt
... REBECCA. Then harken very well unto this my sentence. I heard old Isaac, in a long, solemn talk, Bid thy brother Esau to the field to walk, And there with his bow to kill him some venison, Which brought and dressed, he is to ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Robert Dodsley
... man have a stubborn and rebellious son which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not harken unto them, then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place. And they shall say unto the elders of his city, 'This, our son, is stubborn ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll
... And thou didst harken to me? At midnight we were watching with our dead—Our beauteous Queen. The old man's hair was white, And longer than a woman's. Like a cloak It hung about him, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... and I do counsel Sam'l that he put not his finger between the Bark and the Tree, lest it come by a shrewd squeeze, but let rather my Lady deal with her Lord as a Wife should do. But he would not harken, whereby ...
— The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty • E. Barrington |
