chestnut quotes

This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly: And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'TheTravellers' Rest', And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.

-Thomas Hardy
  Late Lyrics and Earlier,'Weathers'.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  '  The Village Blacksmith', stanza1. Collected in Ballads and other Poems (1841).

O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole? O body swayed to music,O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Among School Children', stanza 8. collected in TheTower (1928).