Spreading Chestnut Tree

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

    “Under the spreading chestnut tree
    I sold you and you sold me:
    There lie they, and here lie we
    Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “Under the spreading chestnut tree
    I sold you and you sold me:
    There lie they, and here lie we
    Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

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

    “Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies,
    But we have hidden in our hearts the flame out of the eyes
    Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)