Red Gum Forests

Famous quotes containing the words red, gum and/or forests:

    “‘But where can we draw water,’
    Said Pearse to Connolly,
    ‘When all the wells are parched away?
    O plain as plain can be
    There’s nothing but our own red blood
    Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The hunchback on the corner, with gum and shoelaces,
    Has his own wisdom and pleasures,”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)