Rose Tree

Famous quotes containing the words rose tree, rose and/or tree:

    “‘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)

    “Ah done been in sorrow’s kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “the scythers, Time and Death,
    Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath;”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)