"Fen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men, Fittest for sunless work; Old Night is steaming from her den, And her children gather and lurk; Bad things are creeping from the fen, And sliding ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... fen." While these words seem new and unusual to us, we must remember that in England they are as common as the terms marsh and swamp ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... power hath bless'd me, sure it still Will lead me on, O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... of great hunting matches[39] they would drive up masses of foxes and wolves; and all the huntsmen of the neighborhood might lie in wait in its expanse for fowl from morn till eve, and if they pleased, might roam at will in a canoe and destroy the swarms of winged inhabitants of the fen: ...
— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai
... once, from lowly fen, Soared up in stately flight; But, striking 'gainst the gilded vane, He fell in sorry plight: And as, with wounded wing, he lay Down in the marsh below, He thus addressed the glittering thing, The cause of all ...
— The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses • J. C. Manning
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