Broom quotes

Piping Pebworth,Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bidford.

-Anonymous
'Traditional Rhyme on the Vale of  Avon Place-Names', quoted in Arnold Silcock, Verse and Worse (1952),'Whimsies'.

O the broom, the bonnie, bonnie broom, The broom of Cowdenknowes; I wish I were with my dear swain, With his pipe and my yowes.

-Ballads
'The Broom of Cowdenknowes', opening lines.

When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom, And apples began to be golden-skinned, We harboured a stag in the Priory coomb.

-John Davidson
  Holiday and Other Poems,'A Runnable Stag', stanza1.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room, Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom, And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Songs ofTravel (published1896), no.11, stanza1.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

-Bojaxhiu
  A Gift for God,'Carriers of Christ's Love'.