Kerchieved

From the hoeing and the mowing and the lavender rows gray; From laying down the runners down to Warsash way; Kerchieved as the buttercup, Ringèd as the moon, Beaded like the briony, scarlet-threaded soon; Driving in the tilted cart from smoky tent and tan, Rumbling down the roadway in the red caravan!

The white-kerchieved head is bent closely over the masterpiece-to-be.

We ran on through mile after mile of olive trees, where red-kerchieved maidens of Grecian profile were gathering the fruit into baskets.

i remember some years ago, in a New York paper, an extraordinary full-page picture of the funeral in Brooklyn of a murdered Hasidic Jewish child: a scene which might have come straight from Old Russia, with kerchieved women wailing in the street and bearded men in the long frock-coats and wide-brimmed black hats of the sect.

Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.

you're here, you're there, you're lost on a flight to Stockholm the Belgian francs are talking to me again two hundred Belgian francs strut past me to chuckle the languages we use five hundred and fifty blue-kerchieved heads nod at the cleaner's, tell me they can't understand my French.

Kerchieved women flash by, crazy little mutts yelp, and the red roses of samovars burn in taverns and houses.

We sat there over an hour, watching strollers and some kerchieved peasant ladies selling carnations, roses, and rubber-banded sobriquets from their plastic-bucket shops.