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Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. - Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr, At the Gate I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. - John Milton, Comus (l. 543) I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd And yet I found it sweet and fair. - Christina Georgina Rossetti, The Honeysuckle And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto III, introduction) Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice Proposing with the Prince and Claudio. Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us; And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her To listen our propose. This is thy office. Bear thee well in it and leave us alone. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i)
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