"Cark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... felled by fair wide-opened eyes, * Which pierced my heart with stringless archery: And soft, lithe, swaying shape enraptured me * As sway the branches of the willow-tree: Wi' them I covet union that I win, * O'er love-pains cark and care, a mastery. For love of them aye, morn and eve I pine, * And doubt all came to me from ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... That desert place This or next week, And those tracks trace That fill me with cark And cloy; nowhere Being movement or mark Of you ...
— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy
... every one observes and comments on it. Time itself has gone on like this; the years have accumulated, first in drifts, then in heaps, and now a vast mound, to which the mountains are knolls, rises up and overshadows us. Time lies heavy on the world. The old, old earth is glad to turn from the cark and care of drifted centuries to the first sweet ...
— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies
... be dark, and earth With ceaseless care do cark, till mirth To thee no sweet strain singeth; Still hide thy life above, and still Believe that God is love; fulfil Whatever ...
— Daily Strength for Daily Needs • Mary W. Tileston |
