Willow Branches

Famous quotes containing the words willow branches, willow and/or branches:

    Lay a garland on my hearse,
    Of the dismal yew;
    Maidens, willow branches bear;
    Say I died true.
    Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

    There is a willow grows aslant a brook
    That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Bare woods, whose branches strain,
    Deep caves and dreary main,—
    Wail, for the world’s wrong.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)