My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more. Arthur Hugh Clough
Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream. Nikos Kazantzakis
somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time. R. S. Thomas
Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen. Harry Chapin
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, "He was a man who used to notice such things?" Thomas Hardy
Green leaves and brown leaves fall from the same tree. English Proverb