Ivy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Ivy Quotes
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“For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. A Large Party and Entertainment)
“That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II)
“Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VIII)
“The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.”
William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Source: The Serenade
“As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: The Progress of Error (l. 285)
“Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. . . . . Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.”
Charles Dickens Quotes
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. VI)
“Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 216)
“On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?”
Thomas Moore Quotes
Source: Odes of Anacreon (ode XLVIII)
“Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 303)
“Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 243)
“Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Windsor Forest (l. 69)