There is a long line of ruinous wall, and a shattered tower at one of the angles; the whole much ivy-grown,brimming over, indeed, with clustering ivy, which is rooted inside of the walls.

"To cut the ivy that clings to the trunks and takes their life away," he said.

The deplored intimacy had begun on a morning when Wilbur was early abroad salvaging golf balls from certain obscure nooks of the course where Newbern's minor players were too likely to abandon the search for them on account of tall grass, snakes, poison ivy, and other deterrents.

There is love In every thing that lives: the very sunne Does burne in love while we partake his heate; The clyming ivy with her loving twines Clips the strong oake.

But the door opened and the Dumb Princess stood there, pallid, wistful, just as she had looked before her true lover climbed the precarious ivy to her tower and tore away the spell that veiled her.

Marmaduke with both hands clutching the ivy which clung round the gnarled stem of an old elm, watched from out the darkness what these three men were doing here, beside this pavilion, which had always been so lonely and deserted.

I found a lodging for the night wi' an aged couple who had a wee cottage all covered wi' ivy, no sae far from the Solway Firth.

Early in March, as he walks along the southern side of the hedge, where the dead oak leaves still cumber the trailing ivy, he can scarcely avoid seeing that pointed tongues of green are pushing up.

Rue, likewise, which entered so largely into magic rites, was once much in request as an antidote against such practices; and nowadays, when worn on the person in conjunction with agrimony, maiden-hair, broom-straw, and ground ivy, it is said in the Tyrol to confer fine vision, and to point out the presence of witches.

FROM AN ANXIOUS MOTHER PHYLLIS TO THRASONIDES If you only would put up with the country and be sensible, and do as the rest of us do, my dear Thrasonides, you would offer ivy and laurel and myrtle and flowers to the gods at the proper time; and to us, your parents, you would give wheat and wine and a milk-pail full of the new goat's-milk.

I picked up a lump of earth in the road and threw it over a stone fence, covered with vines that were red with autumn leaveswoodbine or poison-ivy I suppose.

The original structure must have been of great size and splendor, but those twin VandalsTime and Avaricehave stripped away everything but the lofty brick masses, whose nakedness the pitying ivy strives to cover.

At other times he sowed seeds of the cucumber tree, chickory and "colliflower" and planted ivy and wild honeysuckle.

in the meadow sweet was the grave of a little child, With a crumbling stone at the feet and the ivy running wild Tangled ivy and clover folding it over and over: Close to my sweetheart's feet was the little mound up-piled.

Behind one of these walls, broken down in places, but held together with straggling ivy, and buttressed here and there with a bramble-bush, Elzevir put me down at length and said, 'I am beat, and can carry thee no farther for this present, though there is not now much farther to go.

That poetical school-girl, who smiled and scattered daisies on the head of her lover, as he knelt before her, has become the adored wife of a dull tallow-chandler; and the other one, who took the ivy for her emblem, and who said to her sweetheart: "I cling till death!" has clung to and separated from half-a-dozen others without dying, and has finished by fastening herself to a rheumatical old churchwarden, peevish but substantial.

One farmhouse I noted carefully, and I longed to tear away the ivy from the old and crumbling porch, to see if I could not discern some half-effaced inscription telling me the date of this relic of the days of "Merrie England.

Take them, dear, and pray for me. 'JULIET AND HER ROMEO' (With Mr. Dicksee's Picture) Take 'this of Juliet and her Romeo,' Dear Heart of mine, for though yon budding sky Yearns o'er Verona, and so long ago That kiss was kissed; yet surely Thou and I, Surely it is, whom morning tears apart, As ruthless men tear tendrilled ivy down: Is not Verona warm within thy gown, And Mantua all the world save where thou art?

And she answered: "My child, do you see the great flat stone which lies there, half buried in the ground, and covered with moss and trailing ivy?

The schoolmaster swept the ground before the door, trimmed the long grass, trained the ivy and creeping plants, and gave to the outer walls a cheery air of home.

Who, entering first her lowly roof, a shed With hoary moss, and winding ivy spread, Honest enough to hide an humble hermit's head, Thus graciously bespoke her welcome guest: 700 So might these walls, with your fair presence blest, Become your dwelling-place of everlasting rest; Not for a night, or quick revolving year; Welcome an owner, not a sojourner.

"Across the heath, encircled with fences of uncouth stones, stands a stern record of feudal yore; at the next turn peeps the rectory, encircled with old firs, trained fruit trees, and affectionate ivy; beneath yon darkened thickets rolls the lazy Ure, expanding into laky broadness; and, beyond yon western woods, which embower the peaceful hamlet, are seen the "everlasting hills," across which the enterprising Romans constructed their road.

I, that spend half my nights and all my days Here in a cell, to get a dark pale face, To come forth worth the ivy or the bays, And in this age can hope no other grace Leave me!

THE MIRACLE Who beckons the green ivy up Its solitary tower of stone?

His departure was like the falling down of a venerable cathedral, leaving the broken and bleeding ivy among the dust and debris.