Ivy

Quotes

• “This little girl inside me Is retreating to her favourite place. Go into the garden. Go under the ivy, Under the leaves, Away from the party. Go right to the rose. Go right to the white rose (For me.)”
• “Oh roses for the flush of youth,And laurel for the perfect prime;But pluck an ivy branch for meGrown old before my time.”
• “The holly and the ivy,When they are both full grown,Of all the trees that are in the woodThe holly bears the crown.”
• “I see that God is in all creatures, man and beast, fish and fowl,and every green thing from the highest cedar to the ivy on the wall;and that God is the life and being of them all, and that God doth really dwell,and (if you will) personally (if he may admit so low an expression) in them all,and hath his being no where else out of the creatures . . .”
• “Well might the thoughtful race of old With ivy twine the head Of him they hailed their god of wine — Thank God ! the lie is dead; For ivy climbs the crumbling hallTo decorate decay; And spreads its dark deceitful pall To hide what wastes away.”
• “That headlong ivy! not a leaf will growBut thinking of a wreath, Large leaves, smooth leaves, Serrated like my vines, and half as green. I like such ivy, bold to leap a heightTwas strong to climb! as good to grow on gravesAs twist about a thyrsus, pretty too(And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.”

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Official website

www.ivynus.com

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