"Cark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... master are conspicuous—he has got rid of the cark and care, the anxiety and incessant worry of managing slaves; all the trouble and responsibility of rearing them from infancy, of their proper maintenance in health, and sickness, and decrepitude, of coercing them to labor, ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... soothe the wrong. For on the hill or in the dell, Or where the brook went leaping by Or where the fields would surge and swell With golden wheat or bearded rye, I felt her heart against my own, I breathed the sweetness of her breath, Till all the cark of time had flown, And I was ...
— The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson |
