Flaming Green Tree

Famous quotes containing the words flaming, green and/or tree:

    “Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
    For the lesson thou hast taught!
    Thus at the flaming forge of life
    Our fortunes must be wrought;
    Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
    Each burning deed and thought!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
    Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “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)