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

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

topic: Stars, Play, Shining, Cypresses, Cypress Trees

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

topic: Tree, Despair, Cypresses, Cypress Trees

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

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Song, Sad Song, Death Poems, Cypresses, Shady

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

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Death, Dying, Green, Sad Song, Death Poems

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

topic: Dream, Song, Pain, Sad Song, Death Poems

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

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

topic: Country, Tree, Louisiana, Weeping Willows, Bayou

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

- Plutarch

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

topic: Tree, Speech, Fruit, Cypresses, Cypress Trees

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

topic: Opportunity, Tree, World, Cypresses, Cypress Trees

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

topic: Men, Thinking, Lakes, Slime, Cypresses