Holly (Ilex) Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Holly (Ilex)


Green, slender, leaf-clad holly-boughs Were twisted gracefu’ round her brows, I took her for some Scottish Muse, By that same token, An’ come to stop those reckless vows, Would soon be broken. Burns—The Vision. Duan I. St. 9.	1
Those hollies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took. Coleridge—The Three Graves. Pt. IV. St. 24.	2
All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Save the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o’er the gravel spread. Crabbe—Tales of the Hall.	3
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree? Southey—The Holly-Tree.	4
O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist’s sophistries. Southey—The Holly-Tree. St. 1.	5