"Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single……" — George Pope Morris

More Bough Quotes

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• The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
• she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards… — Lewis Carroll
• It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And… — Clinton Scollard
• Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss… — Gary Snyder
• Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as… — William Butler Yeats
• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn. — Robert Lowell
• My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth,… — William Saroyan
• Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into… — Rainer Maria Rilke
• She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to… — Philipp Meyer
• We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou? — Charles Spurgeon
• But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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