“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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Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
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.”
Dante Alighieri book Paradiso
Canto XXVI, lines 137–138 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Ancestress (Spoken by Jaromir)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet
"Central Park at Dusk"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”
A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad
No. 2, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”
Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“Now fields are green, and trees bear silver buds.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
