Laurel Tree

Famous quotes containing the words laurel and/or tree:

    “Smart lad, to slip betimes away
    From fields where glory does not stay,
    And early though the laurel grows
    It withers quicker than the rose.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “The wind flapped loose, the wind was still,
    Shaken out dead from tree and hill:
    I had walked on at the wind’s will,—
    I sat now, for the wind was still.”
    —Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)