Cypress Trees Quotes

• Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Stars, Play, Shining

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Tree, Despair, Cypresses

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• When I am dead, my dearest,
  Sing no sad songs for me

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Cypresses, Shady

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Death, Dying, Green

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Song, Pain

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

  Sam Trammell

  Country, Tree, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

  Plutarch

  Tree, Speech, Fruit

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 56 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Opportunity, Tree, World

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• Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Men, Thinking, Lakes

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