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If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. XI, v. 3) Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. - Bible, Matthew (ch. XII, v. 33) I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XXXVII, v. 35) Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. - Maria Brooks, written on seeing Pharamond Worn, gray olive-woods, which seem the fittest foliage for a dream. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded, Acacias having drunk the lees Of the night-dew, fain headed, And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem The fittest foliage for a dream. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, An Island Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade. - William Cullen Bryant Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven. - William Cullen Bryant These shades Are still the abodes of gladness; the thick roof Of green and stirring branches is alive And musical with birds, that sing and sport In wantonness of spirit; while below The squirrel, with raised paws and form erect, Chirps merrily. - William Cullen Bryant The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. - William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart. - William Cullen Bryant, Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood The shad-bush, white with flowers, Brightened the glens; the new leaved butternut And quivering poplar to the roving breeze Gave a balsamic fragrance. - William Cullen Bryant, The Old Man's Counsel (l. 28) Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits the lowlier their boughs. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton These blasted pines, wrecks of a single winter, barkless, branchless, a blighted trunk upon a cursed root. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! - Thomas Campbell Oh, leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree! - Thomas Campbell, The Beech-Tree's Petition The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. - William Bliss Carman, Vagabond Song I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me. - Alice Cary I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Sibert Cather, O Pioneers! As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo. - Charles Churchill, The Ghost (bk. II, V, 257) The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire. - Sir Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, in a speech on Financial Reform at Blackpool, referring to Gladstone's tree felling hobby In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) He loves his old hereditary trees. - Abraham Cowley No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. - William Cowper, Task (bk. I, l. 307) Some boundless contiguity of shade. - William Cowper, Task (bk. II) Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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