Green Boughs

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or boughs:

    “a shiver, a delight
    that what is passing
    is here, as if
    a snake went by, green in the
    gray leaves.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
    They are no wealthier than I;
    But with as brave a core within
    They rear their boughs to the October sky.
    Poor knights they are which bravely wait
    The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
    Keeping a simple Roman state,
    Discumbered of their Persian luxury.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)