I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,... Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself, But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the ninet...ies, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summer... and wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some ma...n of great power and interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A steam ran small and terrible and shrill; it was so still;... the stream ran from the oak-copse and returned and ran back into shadow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Below me trees unnumbered rise, Beautiful in various dyes:... The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which n...o cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »