Leaf Stalk

Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or stalk:

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”
—Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (1915–1959)

“Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)