Captain Jeremiah Birk shared with Daniel Boone and many other pioneers in the Western wilderness, the feeling that life in a settlement was too crowded.
With a hey lillelu and a how lo lau, And she's either dead or she's married, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
What if these diamonds lose their hue, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lau, Just when my love begins for to rew, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
But when he looked this ring upon, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lau, The shining diamonds were pale and wan, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
Seven long years he has been on the sea, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lau, And Hynd Horn has looked how his ring may be, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
For when your ring turns pale and wan With a hey lillelu and a how lo lau, Then I'm in love with another man, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
But now the cot is bare and cauld, Its leafy bield for ever gane, And scarce a stinted birk is left To shiver in the blast its lane.
There, oft as mild evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
The Scotch proverb, which says of a very poor man that he is "Bare as a Birk at Yule e'en," probably refers to an old custom of stripping the bark of the tree prior to converting it into the yule log.
I dreamed I pu'd the Birk sae green Wi' my true love on Yarrow.
The tree known in the Highlands as the Drooping Birk is often grown in churchyards, where, as Scott says, "Weeps the Birch of silver bark with long dishevell'd hair.
And thae twa met, and thae twa plat, The birk but and the brier; And by that ye may very weel ken They were twa lovers dear.
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh.
For when your ring turns pale and wan, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; 30 Then I'm in love with another man, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
I got it not by sea, but I got it by land, 125 With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; For I got it out of thine own hand, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
I'll cast off my gowns of brown, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; 130 And I'll follow thee from town to town, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
She gave him a cup out of her own hand, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; He drunk out the drink, and dropt in the ring, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
These news unto the bonnie bride came, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; That at the yett there stands an auld man, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
Near Edinburgh was a young child born, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; And his name it was called Young Hynd Horn, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
The auld beggar man threw down his staff, 85 With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; And he has mounted the good gray steed, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
Seven lang years he has been on the sea, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; And Hynd Horn has looked how his ring may be, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
What if those diamonds lose their hue, 25 With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; Just when my love begins for to rew, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie?
The bridegroom thought he had the bonnie bride wed, 145 With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; But young Hynd Horn took the bride to the bed, And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
She went to the gate where the auld man did stand, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; And she gave him a drink out of her own hand, 115 And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
The auld beggar man was bound for to ride, With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; But young Hynd Horn was bound for the bride, 95 And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie.
And thae twa met, and thae twa plat, The birk but and the brier, And by that ye may very weel ken They were twa lovers dear.
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh.
What is called the birch or “birk in Yule even’” was probably the Yule clog.
Our author may refer to this practice or perhaps he had simply in view the old proverb, “He’s as bare as the birk at Yule.
The roses fauld their silken leaves, The foxglove shuts its bell, The honeysuckle and the birk Spread fragrance through the dell Let others crowd the giddy court Of mirth and revelry-- The simple joys that Nature yields Are dearer far to me.
Kenneth had just been piling one or two sturdy birk logs on the peat-fire, in preparation for their arrival.
The drooping birkboughs were quite golden now, and the rowan berries a coral red.
They were coming near home now, and had reached the shady birk walk which led to the castle, when they heard through the trees Mr. Clifford's pleasant ringing tones, which Morag loved to listen to.
How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild Ev'ning weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
The birk held a high place in the secret rites and customs of the Ballad Age.
But the thing was achieved, and my next clear remembrance is one of crawling painfully among the low birk trees-and cliffs on the far side of the Wormel.
As for myself, I will go up the Wormel, and hide among the scrogs of birktill evening.
Then I struck higher up on the hillside and kept well in the shade of a little cloud of birk trees which lay along the edge of the slope.
I was gey near chokit wi' Tweed water, but I wabbled a bit, and syne grippit a birk and held on.
It neither grew in syke nor ditch Nor yet in any sheuch, But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneuch.
Gilbert, let me set this spray of the bonny birk above thine heart.
I dreamed I pu'd the birk sae green, Wi' my true love on Yarrow.
Queen drove over from Balmoral to Birk Hall, and Miss Nightingale had "tea and a great talk" with Her Majesty.
She went in September with her father to stay with Sir James Clark, Queen Victoria's physician, at Birk Hall, near Ballater.
She left for Birk Hall on September 19, and two days later she was introduced to the Queen and the Prince at Balmoral by Sir James Clark.
Meanwhile Her Majesty knew of the present invitation; and there would be opportunity at Birk Hall for quiet and informal talk in addition to any "command" visit at Balmoral.
Then Lord Panmure, following in the steps of his Sovereign, went to see Miss Nightingale atBirk Hall, and they had long conversations.
So she stayed on at Birk Hall, her "command" visit to Balmoral being postponed till Lord Panmure should arrive.
The roses fauld their silken leaves, The foxglove shuts its bell; The honeysuckle and the birk Spread fragrance through the dell.
How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
Birk Water was a lovely little mountain tarn lying under the shadow of Fox Fell, a smooth, grassy eminence down which hurried a noisy stream.
It was a good hour's walk from the cromlechs to Birk Water, the lake where they intended to pick the rushes.
It neither grew in syke nor dyke, nor yet in ony sheugh, But at the gates o' Paradise thatbirk grew fair eneuch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
