Potential Titles: Yew

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And never a spray of yew - Matthew Arnold "Requiescat"

No cypress nor no mourning yew - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"

In the venomed yew tree - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"

From her dark-gnarled yew-tree lair - Walter de la Mare "Snow"

Enshrouded in plucked yew - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

A scathed yew-tree's wither'd limb, to mark the spot - Jesse Hammond "Cross Roads" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.273, 15 Sept. 1827]

While blusters vex the yew and vane - Thomas Hardy "A Drizzling Easter Morning"

No tough arm bends the springing yew - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Under old, red-fruited yews - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

A ring-dove let fall a sprig of yew - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Entrance hid with dismal Yew - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

Green-barked yew supports the sky - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer

With yew-trees bound - John Langdon-Davies "Quits!"

Through the yew-trees shadowy row - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

With the yew-tree grove on its crest - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

In the garden yonder of yews and death - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell


Your rosary of yew-berries - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Over your bed let the Yew-bough fall - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"


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