Very rarely does he attain to the poignant simplicity of 'The Hawthorn Tree' or the detached irony of 'Does it Matter?
For vagabonds in April the poppies riot scarlet by the white road's edge, and the last of the hawthorn lingers like melting snow, and over the garden walls the purple veils of the wistaria drift like twilight mist.
He remembered how once a hawthorn bud set him weeping; and how once, as he went miserable to church, a child looked up in his face and smiled, and how in the strength of that smile he had walked boldly to the lectern.
Yes, or to see them stripping a hawthorn bush in winter--always provided the cat or the hawk don't get hold of them.
The hawthorn shed a delicious fragrance; outside, the breeze of spring sighed among the weeping-willows, the brook gurgled and sobbed.
The flowers of the hawthorn are not, like the catkins, over before the hazel shows its leaves.
One of them takes us past the hawthorn tree and along the edge of the moors, and then down into a valley through a long lane with high banks covered with brambles and black with the squashy berries.
This year they chose the Imp and the Elf, and you just can't imagine how proud they were, and how the Imp strutted about with his hawthorn sceptre, and the Elf kept re-arranging her curls under her green and starry crown.
She had a sprig of hawthorn blossom for a sceptre, and everybody did what she told them.
And then off we go along the road that leads by the hawthorn tree, over the moor and down on the other side, to where a little river runs between two farms about a mile from each.
As we pass the hawthorn tree the Elf always look up at it, and though she says nothing I know she is thinking of the Mayday and the dancing and the playing at Oranges and Lemons.
The hawthorn trees have single spines, some long and curved, some short, some branched.
Flowers much like apple blossoms in form cover the twigs of hawthorn trees.
Hawthorn hedges, for instance, are common everywhere; why not graft some of the rare and beautiful sorts of tree thorns, and intersperse common thorns between them?
A fresh breeze was blowing; the rye and colza were sprouting, little dewdrops trembled at the roadsides and on the hawthorn hedges.
The garden, longer than wide, ran between two mud walls with espaliered apricots, to a hawthorn hedge that separated it from the field.
As Miss West gave in to her whims for peace' sake in things not important, and as she was young enough herself not to dislike running, to the hawthorn walk they went.
The cold, clear afternoon air touching their healthy faces, and Jack Frost nipping their noses, raced Miss West and Kate Dancox up and down the hawthorn walk.
You know the corner of the field with the pinkhawthorn near Mr. Case's house?
The setting sun was shining full upon the pink blossoms of the hawthorn when the merry group met to make their plans for the morrow.
You know the field with the pink hawthorn where the village children play?
Then," said Sir Arthur to the farmer, "you understand that this little green is to be a playground for the village children, and I hope they may gather hawthorn from their favorite bush for many a Mayday to come.
Then he wandered down a woodland path to gather honeysuckle and hawthorn to weave a garland for himself.
In the hawthorn the buds usually occur in pairs together.
Twigs of beech, horse-chestnut, lilac, and hawthorn ought to be taken in in December and placed in water.
The thorns also prevent the buds from being knocked off by anything rubbing against the hawthorn hedge.
These thorns can give a very cruel prick, as every boy knows who has tried to cut a twig from the hawthorn hedge.
If we could get some hawthorn or rowan berries, we should have all the bullfinches in the district around us.
In Bucks the children speak of 'knots of May,' meaning each little bunch of hawthorn blossom.
In the midst of her reveries she suddenly beheld old George sauntering along the hedge side, with his hands on his back, and a bit of hawthorn blossom stuck in the button-hole of his coat.
The mild air blowing about brought grateful odours--was it from the green-sward all around, or from the more distant masses of hawthorn white and red?
They had come out ostensibly to talk over the sacrifice of the pink-and-white hawthorn in the shade of which they sat in favor of extending the court so that Bob and Edith could both have parties simultaneously.
While the new court would be an improvement, they would regret the celestial flowering of the hawthorn whenever, as at present, it was May.
She was instantly careering along like a white butterfly in the sunshine, flitting on as the child tried to catch her, among the snowy hawthorn bushes, or sinking down for very joy and delight among the bank of wild hyacinths.
Katharine graciously consented, and was led to a rustic bower, covered with hawthorn boughs and spring flowers, where a fine breakfast of venison and other good things was laid out.
In all the decorations used on these occasions the pomegranate was mingled with the roses of York and Lancaster, and the Tudor device of the hawthorn with its scarlet berries.
Thus cried May Ellen, soft and low, From where thehawthorn shed its snow.
So when high noontide had come they sat them down upon the soft grass, beneath a green and wide- spreading hawthorn bush, and held a hearty and jovial feast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hawthorn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; flower; oak; tree
