Careful Words

nook (n.)

I give the fight up: let there be an end,

A privacy, an obscure nook for me.

I want to be forgotten even by God.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Paracelsus. Part v.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,

Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859): Politics and Poetics.