bough quotes

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verseand Thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise enow.

- Edward Fitzgerald
  The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza12. In the1879 edn this was changed to'A Book of  Verses underneath the Bough, /  A  Jug of  Wine, a loaf of Breadand Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!'

   Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burne'  d is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), epilogue.

The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction, A green bough fromVirginia's aged tree.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Chills and Fever,'Dead Boy'.