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You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales. — Jim Crace

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs. — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

But even the moment when the leaves fall from their boughs - even that moment - has a beauty to it. A glory of its own. — Renee Ahdieh

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles

The boughs that bear most hang lowest. — David Garrick

What e'er you are
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time. — William Shakespeare

A bird in the boughs sang "June,"
And "June" hummed a bee
In a Bacchic glee
As he tumbled over and over
Drunk with the honey-dew. — Clinton Scollard

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest. — John Phillips

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. — William C. Bryant

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring. — Rumi

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide. — Andrew Marvell

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill! — James Thomas Fields

Boughs have their fruit and blossom
At all times of the year;
Rivers are running over
With red beer and brown beer. — William Butler Yeats

Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March. — John Greenleaf Whittier

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 hath wings. — Victor Hugo

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. — Jonathan Swift

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. — Victor Hugo

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be? — Lucy Larcom

Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time. — Edgar Lee Masters

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows ... — John Geddes

Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs? — Felicia Hemans

I see my trees repair their boughs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short boughs, long vintage. — George Herbert

That precious fruit which all men eagerly go searching for on many different boughs will give,today, peace to your hungry soul. — Dante Alighieri

The sunlight sparkled through the wind-bent boughs of trees, dancing in an ever-shifting pattern — S.D. Smith

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. — Edmund Waller

The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Charles Tomlinson

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 land. — A.E. Housman

She and Jack had formed her of snow and birch boughs and frosty wild grass. — Eowyn Ivey

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher

Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. — Thomas Hood

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow — Wallace Stevens

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. — William C. Bryant

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes. — Lydia M. Child

Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain. — Federico Garcia Lorca

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken. — Siegfried Sassoon

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it. — Victor Hugo

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built. — Hafez

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear. — William Allingham