What is "birken"

Usage examples of "birken".

Since there were not enough rooms, Dach bedded him, Birken, and Greflinger in the attic straw.

Dach passed alongside the table, saying a few words to each man, and reconciling those who like Buchner and young Birken were becoming embroiled in argument ahead of time.

Next Dach called on Sigmund Birken, whose hair hung down to his shoulders in curls that were constantly taking on new life.

Yet not only the modernists Zesen and Birken, but Buchner and Logau as well, rejected all dialects as vehicles of poetry.

Zesen and Birken reviled the late Opitz, whose rules were termed relentless fences and whose images were disparaged as colorless.

Only the youngsters -- Birken, Greflinger, and, hesitantly, the student Scheffler -- stayed in the courtyard with Zesen and approached the maids.

After much praise, in which Gryphius joined, Birken inquired cautiously, as though asking his mentor for advice, whether it was seemly to couch a child that had died in the womb in so light-footed a verse form.

While the poets cast mocking glances at one another, while Greflinger whistled a tune, while Birken smiled with moist lips, Schneuber waxed offensive under his breath, and Lauremberg inquired what had become of young Scheffler.

But Dach, who had his Albert beside him, said that on this occasion young Birken would pray aloud for all.

First -- while Birken and others were still bending over their seconds -- new trouble was aired.

No, Birken replied, he had no objection to the implement either before or after the cutting, what he minded was the smooth and slippery manner.

And only then, after childlike joy over the unharmed thistle had spread, after young Birken had heaped up earth over the bared roots and Lauremberg had run for water -- only after the company had thus recovered its innocence but before the usual chatter had time to start up did Simon Dach, beside whom Daniel Czepko had stationed himself, speak.

The Nurembergers, Birken in the lead, were soon obliging with pastoral rhymes.

Julianne had told him once, seeing how the birken tree was another name for the birch, which stood for the first month of the druidic calendar of the trees and represented a time of beginning and cleansing.