"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 |