Honeysuckle

thumb|right|I sat me down to watch upon a bankWith ivy canopied and interwoveWith flaunting honeysuckle. Honeysuckle (Lonicera), also known as Woodbine, are arching shrubs or twining vines in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. There are about 180 species of honeysuckle, 100 of which occur in China; Europe, India and North America have only about 20 native species each. Sourced And stroke with listless handThe woodbine through the window, till at lastI came to do it with a sort of love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1857), Book I. Around in silent grandeur stoodThe stately children of the wood;Maple and elm and towering pineMantled in folds of dark woodbine. Julia C. R. Dorr, At the Gate; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 372. I sat me down to watch upon a bankWith ivy canopied and interwoveWith flaunting honeysuckle. John Milton, Comus (1637), line 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. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Honeysuckle; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 372. And honeysuckle loved to crawlUp the low crag and ruin'd wall. Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Canto III, Introduction. And bid her steal into the pleached bower,Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,Forbid the sun to enter, like favorites,Made proud by princes, that advance their prideAgainst that power that bred it. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 1, line 7. A filbert-hedge with wild-briar overtwined,And clumps of woodbine taking the soft windUpon their summer thrones. John Keats, I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill, Poems (1817). And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,And the musk of the rose is blown. Alfred Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama (1855), Part XXII, Stanza I. External links honeysuckle Category:Flowers