Hedges Quotes
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Here tulips bloom as they are told; Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose.
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More Hedges Quotes
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
jonathan swift— 1727 'A Pastoral Dialogue between Richmond Lodge and Marble Hill', l.8.
The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic’s eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.
william plomer— "The Bungalows", line 45, from A Shot in the Park (London: Jonathan Cape, 1955).
Wisdom made him old and wary Banishing the Lords of Faery. Wisdom made a breach and battered Babylon to bits: she scattered To the hedges and ditches All our nursery gnomes and witches.
robert graves— "Babylon"
As through the verdant maze Of sweetbriar hedges I pursue my walk; Or taste the smell of dairy.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 105.
