There is also a Biblical link with children. There are also the famous lines in William Blake’s poem, ‘Jerusalem’: Indeed, he is traditionally portrayed holding a bow with an arrow ready to aim and fire. The other most obvious interpretation is of Cupid shooting his arrows of love straight to a lover’ s heart. For, although a cricket field can occasionally turn into a polite and gentlemanly battlefield, I was sure that there were softer connotations to the bow and quiver. The epitaph to Edwin Fitch in Staplehurst churchyard.īut, as with most symbols, there are other meanings and I am indebted to theartofmourning blog for reminding me of these. There is also another inscription above it that states that the stone was erected as a mark of respect by the Staplehurst Cricket Club. The epitaph goes on to state that Edwin left behind a widow and two children Marianne and Walter William. The headstone is dedicated to Edwin Fitch who died at the fairly young age of 43 on 22 January 1869. The bow and arrows are a symbol that has been known for centuries and since the earliest times has been associated with hunting and survival. I then discovered this headstone with a combination of two symbols on it.Īt first glance you might be forgiven for thinking that this is the grave of a warrior or someone involved in warfare as the combination is formed from a bow, a quiver of arrows and a circlet of oak leaves.
After exploring the newer part of the churchyard and seeing ‘nature’s lawnmowers’ aka sheep in the field behind I returned to the older section. This was ‘The Choice’ which I found in the older part of the churchyard. I have already discussed one of the symbols that I found in there which featured in a an earlier Symbol of the Month. All Saints churchyard in Staplehurst is one of those as it looks down over the village from its hilltop perch. Note the acorn.Ī country churchyard on a warm, sunny May day can be a peaceful and interesting place to explore. Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.A closer view of the two symbols – the bow and quiver of arrows and the oak leaves. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. And he's using every weapon in the arsenal he's got, but some of the arrows in his quiver might land in the wrong place. The President feels very strongly on this - this is his legacy. We need every arrow in the quiver we can get, and private debt is one of the critical ones, there isn't a no-risk choice. You're fighting for skills all the time and you need as many arrows in your quiver as possible. In my ear, that is obviously an only commercial aspirational use of the word. I quiver a bit when hearing of the lax usage of the word 'yoga' these days, a yoga studio down the road from us here in Miami offers 'yoga booty ballet'. Zelmane would have put to her helping hand, but she was taken with such a quivering, that she thought it more wisdom to lean herself to a tree and look on. The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze.Īlexander Pope. The dying gales that pant upon the trees, With what a spring his furious soul broke loose,Īnd left the limbs still quivering on the ground.Įurydice with quiv’ring voice he mourn’d,Īnd verdant alders form’d a quiv’ring shade.
He quiver’d with his feet, and lay for dead. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.įorward he flew, and pitching on his head, To quake to play with a tremulous motion. Her sounding quiver on her shoulder ty’d, or cover.ĭiana’s nymphs would be arrayed in white, their arms and shoulders naked, bows in their hands, and quivers by their sides. There was a little quiver fellow, and he would manage you his piece thus and he would about and about.Įtymology: this word seems to be corrupted from couvrir, Fr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
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