Hawthorn Quotes

“In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.”

“The hawthorn-trees blow in the dew of the morning.”

“Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.”

“Yet walk with me where hawthorns hide
The wonders of the lane.”

“And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.”

“Then sing by turns, by turns the Muses sing;
Now hawthorns blossom.”

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“The hawthorn-bush, with seats beneath the shade
For talking age and whispering lovers made!”

“The hawthorn I will pu' wi' its lock o' siller gray,
Where, like an aged man, it stands at break o' day.”

“Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep
Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?”

“The Hawthorn whitens; and the juicy Groves
Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees,
Till the whole leafy Forest stands displayed,
In full luxuriance, to the sighing gales.”

“Yet, all beneath the unrivall'd rose,
The lowly daisy sweetly blows;
Tho' large the forest's monarch throws
His army shade,
Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows,
Adown the glade.”

“There is a Thorn,—it looks so old,
In truth, you'd find it hard to say
How it could ever have been young,
It looks so old and gray.
Not higher than a two years child
It stands erect, this aged Thorn;
No leaves it has, no prickly points;
It is a mass of knotted joints,
A wretched thing forlorn.
It stands erect, and like a stone
With lichens is it overgrown.”