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The hawthorn-trees blow in the dew of the morning. - Robert Burns, Chevalier's Lament The hawthorn I will pu' wi' its lock o' siller gray, Where, like an aged man, it stands at break o' day. - Robert Burns, O Luve Will Venture In Yet, all beneath the unrivall'd rose, The lowly daisy sweetly blows; Tho' large the forest's monarch throws His army shade, Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows, Adown the glade. - Robert Burns, Vision (duan II, st. 21) Yet walk with me where hawthorns hide The wonders of the lane. - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"), The Wonders of the Lane (l. 3) The hawthorn-brush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made! - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 13) And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. - John Milton, L'Allegro (l. 67) Then sing by turns, by turns the Muses sing; Now hawthorns blossom. - Alexander Pope, Spring (l. 41) Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at II, v) In hawthorne-time the heart grows light. - Algernon Charles Swinburne, Tale of Balen (I) The Hawthorn whitens; and the juicy Groves Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees, Till the whole leafy Forest stands displayed, In full luxuriance, to the sighing gales. - James Thomson (1), Seasons--Spring
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