| 5 Yew Quotes
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“Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell
'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:
Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades,
Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports)
Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds
No other merriment, dull tree! is thine.”
Robert Blair Quotes Source: The Grave (l.22)
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“For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom
But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Theodric (l. 22)
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“Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravined salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digged i' th' dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Slivered in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-delivered by a drab
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Add there to a tiger's chaudron
For th' ingredience of our cauldron.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Third Witch at IV, i)
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“Of vast circumference and gloom profound,
This solitary Tree! A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Yew-Trees
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“There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Yew-Trees
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