“The bud is on the bough again,
The leaf is on the tree.”
The Meeting of Spring and Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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The Lord of Misrule
The Lord of Misrule and Other Poems (1915)
Context: He died and He went down to hell!
You know not what you mean.
Our rafters were of green fir. Also our beds were green.
But out of the mouth of a fool, a fool, before the darkness fall,
We tell you He is risen again,
The Lord of Life is risen again,
The boughs put forth their tender buds, and
Love is Lord of all!
“The use of men is like a leaf
On bough, which goeth and another cometh.”
Canto XXVI, lines 137–138 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
The Ancestress (Spoken by Jaromir)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
"Central Park at Dusk"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”
No. 2, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“Now fields are green, and trees bear silver buds.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
