Crossword-Solution: PLEACH 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

That one word _pleachéd,_ an heir-loom from Queen Elizabeth's day, gives to the noble sonnet an antique dignity and charm like the effect of an ancestral jewel.

Hear I not echoing footfalls Hither adown the pleach’d walk? No; the over-ripened fruit falls, Heavy-swollen, from off its stalk! Day’s flaming eye at last is quenchéd quite; In gentle death its colours all are paling; Now boldly open in the fair twilight The cups which in his blaze had long been quailing; Slow lifts the moon her visage calmly bright; Into great masses molten, earth sinks failing; From every charm the zone drops unaware, And shrouded beauty dawns upon me bare.

How sweet it were to watch the young goats hung From toppling crags, cropping the tender shoot, While in thick pleachèd shade the shepherd sung His uncouth rural lay and woke his flute; To mark, mid dewy grass, red apples flung, And every bough thick set with ripening fruit, The butting rams, kine lowing o'er the lea, And cornfields waving like the windy sea.

Nectar ran In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; The which, in disentangling for their fire, Pull'd down fresh foliage and coverture For dainty toying.

What caftans blue and scarlet, what turbans pleach'd of green; What waving of their crescents, and plumages between; What buskins and what stirrups, what rowels chased in gold, What handsome gentlemen, what buoyant hearts and bold! Reduan had registered a rash vow to take the city of Jaen so that he might win the daughter of the Moorish king.