Careful Words

meadow (n.)

  You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,

And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

George Linley (1798-1865): Thou art gone.

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake

The sweets of Burn-mill meadow;

The swan on still St. Mary's Lake

Float double, swan and shadow!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Yarrow Unvisited.

How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold?

Because the lovely little flower is free

Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): A Poet! He hath put his Heart to School.