Spreading Chestnut Tree

Famous quotes containing the words spreading chestnut, spreading and/or tree:

    “Under a spreading chestnut-tree
    The village smithy stands;
    The smith, a mighty man is he,
    With large and sinewy hands;
    And the muscles of his brawny arms
    Are strong as iron bands.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “For Occupation—This—
    The spreading wide my narrow Hands
    To gather Paradise—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha,
    It held the shivering, the shaken limbs,
    Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)