Olde Yew Tree

Famous quotes containing the words olde, yew and/or tree:

    “For out of olde feldes, as men seith,
    Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;
    And out of olde bokes, in good feith,
    Cometh al this newe science that men lere.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    “Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
    Green as a bough of yew the beard;
    He bent his head, and so I smote;”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)

    “Strong to break dead things,
    the young tree, drained of sap,
    the old tree, ready to drop,
    to lift from the rotting bed
    of leaves, the old
    crumbling pine tree stock.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)