Previous entries in this series of poems that mention oaks have tended to be complimentary of our favorite genus of trees. In this one, however, the oak plays the anti-hero, proud, haughty, and inflexible opposite the pliant reed that bends but does not break.

A sonnet written by the English Romantic poet in support of the Spanish people during the Peninsular War

Our third post of poems featuring oaks again has Quercus virginiana (southern live oak) as its theme, this time in a poem by Walt Whitman.