Read full poem →[Footnote 90: The storm, by blowing down trees or branches, made an
opening in the dense foliage through which the sun had never
Dictionary Entry
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
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. branchesbranches twobranches variousbranches different
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Poetry examples for “branches”
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Read full poem →To decent forms the lawless shoots to bring,
And teach th' obedient branches where to spring.
Now the cleft rind inserted grafts receives,
Read full poem →No more a woman, nor yet quite a tree;
Thy branches hung with humid pearls appear,
From every leaf distils a trickling tear;
Read full poem →ravin and spoil of the snow,
And the branches it brightened are broken, and shattered the
tree-tops that only thy wrath could lay low,
Read full poem →Those full deep swan-soft feathers of snow with whose luminous
burden the branches implumed
Hung heavily, curved as a half-bent bow, and fledged not as birds
Read full poem →The breath of the mouths of the winds had hardened on tree-tops and
branches that glittered and swayed
Such wonders and glories of blossomlike snow or of frost that
Read full poem →Of forest trees, in a thick eastern wood.
The winter snows had bent its branches down,
The spring had swelled its buds with coming flowers,
Read full poem →Glistening, against the chill, gray sky light,
Wet, black branches are barred and entwined.
Read full poem →Sunshine and flowers, rivers and rushing winds,
Thick branches swaying in a winter storm,
And moonlight playing in a boat's wide wake;