He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade. — Confucius Copy Share Image
For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses,… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Give your heart,but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.And stand together,yet not too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do… — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski Copy Share Image
When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.… — Danny Masterson Copy Share Image
When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but (s)he who is not afraid of my darkness,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
