Boughs Quotes
65 quotes by 52 authors
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Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to…
— William Allingham
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Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
— Thomas Hood
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Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs…
— Emily Carr
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of…
— Jules Verne
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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.
— Hafez
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As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the…
— William Shakespeare
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Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.
— Unknown Author
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When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.
— John Phillips
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I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old…
— Hélder Câmara
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The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.
— William C. Bryant
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O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's…
— John Keats
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In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is…
— John Drinkwater
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Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love…
— William Allingham
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Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.
— John Keats
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