Beeny is a hamlet in north Cornwall

Cornwall

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, England

England

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, UK

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. It is situated on the coast two miles (3 km) north-west of Boscastle

Boscastle

Boscastle is a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Forrabury and Minster. It is situated 14 miles south of Bude and 5 miles north-east of Tintagel....

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Literary allusions

In "A Death-Day Recalled," collected in Satires of Circumstance

Satires of Circumstance

Satires of Circumstance is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1914. It includes the 18 poem sequence 'Poems of 1912-13', on the death of Hardy's wife Emma, widely regarded to comprise the best work of his poetic career....

(1914), Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...

 wrote:

Beeny did not quiver,

  Juliot grew not gray,

Thin Vallency's river

River Valency

The River Valency is located in north Cornwall with many tributaries, and after running past Lesnewth cuts a valley before entering the sea at the harbour of the village of Boscastle. One of its tributaries is the River Jordan, which it joins in Boscastle just before the B3263 road bridge.The...

  Held its wonted way.

Bos seemed not to utter

  Dimmest note of dirge,

Targan mouth a mutter

  To its creamy surge.

Yet though these, unheeding,

  Listless, passed the hour

Of her spirit's speeding,

  She had, in her flower,

Sought and loved the places

  Much and often pined

For their lonely faces

  When in towns confined.

Why did not Vallency

  In his purl deplore

One whose haunts were whence he

  Drew his limpid store?

Why did Bos not thunder,

  Targan apprehend

Body and Breath were sunder

  Of their former friend?