REH Word of the Week: nun
Monday, September 7, 2009
posted by Barbara Barrett
nun
noun
1. a buoy with a rounded middle and tapering ends used to mark the harbor channel.
[origin: early 18th century; origin unknown]
HOWARD’S USAGE:
I have anchored my ship to a quiet port;
A land that is holy and blest.
But I gaze through my bars at the tempest’s sport
And I long for the sea’s unrest.
[from "Nun"; complete poem printed here. It appears in The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard, p. 326]
