Boughs Quotes
65 Boughs quotes by 52 unique authors
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she…
— Victor Hugo
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When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper,…
— Lucy Larcom
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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang…
— William Butler Yeats
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless…
— A. E. Housman
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Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty…
— Wallace Stevens
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She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come…
— Wallace Stevens
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One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are--…
— Walter de La Mare
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Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them…
— Edith Wharton
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A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and…
— Sylvia Plath
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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the…
— Virginia Woolf
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant…
— Emily Bronte
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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with…
— Christina Rossetti
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Anne reveled in the world of color about her. "Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours…
— Edmund Spenser
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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
— Lydia M. Child
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Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!
— James Thomas Fields
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The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
— David Garrick
Who Wrote These Boughs Quotes
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