I sat on a park bench near a willow tree.
I am willing to be the pines in the mountain rock, rather than to be the willow trees beside the lake shore.
Swallows may have gone, but there is a time of return; willow trees may have died back, but there is a time of regreening; peach blossoms may have fallen, but they will bloom again.
Groves of willow and walnut trees sheltered pretty terraces of vines, maize, pumpkins and potatoes.
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Weeping willow.
The thick willow scrub along the river flamed with sharp and positive yellow leaves.
I bend like a willow, when it rains on the river.
On her painted pavilions, facing red towers, Cornices are pink and green with peach-bloom and with willow, Canopies of silk awn her seven-scented chair, And rare fans shade her, home to her nine-flowered curtains.
Across the waves the riverside tower dimmed by cloud, Peeping through boundless autumn on the river, it grieves To see a few withered willow leaves.
Occasionally a bonfire would be set under an old willow.
When I am in the South, the arrival of each autumn will put me in mind of Peiping's Tao Ran Ting with its reed catkins, Diao Yu Tai with its shady willow trees, Western Hills with their chirping insects, Yu Quan Shan Mountain on a moonlight evening and Tan Zhe Si with its reverbrating bell.
The willow twigs, daubed with a light green by several days of sunshine, are now covered all over with the dust and look so sickly that they need to be washed.
"The bride answered, "First run and bring me my little wreath which is hanging to a willow.
Info & links The wind whistles in the old willow tree.
She felt a longing to rest on the soft Oriental carpets within, or to lean against the weeping willow without by the clear water.
Anthony thought it a very beautiful but mournful story; yet he never feared anything so sad would happen to him and Molly, as he passed the spot, whistling the air of a song, composed by the minstrel Walter, called the "Willow bird," beginning— "Under the linden-trees, Out on the heath.
In one of the gardens grew an elder-tree, and in the other an old willow, under which the children were very fond of playing.
Close by the drawbridge, near the gate, there was an old willow tree, which bent over the reeds.
" The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraordinarily long, and when they arrived at a number of willow trees on the border of the wood they sat down, looked up into the great branches and thought they were now really in the wood.
