Midsummer Tree

Famous quotes containing the words midsummer and/or tree:

    “Merry Margaret,
    As midsummer flower,
    Gentle as falcon
    Or hawk of the tower:”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    “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)