Boughs Quotes

65 Boughs quotes by 52 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes. — Lydia M. Child
Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill! — James Thomas Fields
The boughs that bear most hang lowest. — David Garrick

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