Read full poem →- And long we gazed, but satiated at length 90
Came to the ruins. High-arch’d and ivy-claspt,
Dictionary Entry
Any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
Origin
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Common Phrases
league ivy. ivyleaves ivylee ivyivy poisonivy english
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Poetry examples for “ivy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Yet, if a girl should do so, would be but alarmed and disgusted.
She that should love him must look for small love in return,--like the ivy
On the stone wall, must expect but a rigid and niggard support, and
Read full poem →To raise my spirits with thy conjuring wine,
In the green circle of thy ivy twine.
Read full poem →Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay,
Where through the lattice ivy-shadows crept.
He leaned above me, thinking that I slept
Read full poem →A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
Read full poem →Tibullus doth Elysium's joy inherit. 60
Their youthful brows with ivy girt to meet him,
With Calvus learned Catullus comes, and greet him;
Read full poem →grammar-school days. Printed his first book, Oak and
Ivy, in 1893.
Read full poem →With honeysuckle, over-sweet, festoon'd;
With bitter ivy bound;
Terraced with funguses unsound;
Read full poem →Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers--
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Read full poem →But stay! these walls--these ivy-clad arcades--
These mouldering plinths--these sad and blackened shafts--