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To train the ivy of an idle legend on - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Hung with ivy's blackened chains - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"

Outside all is ivy, clinging - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"

Wide open with chickpeas and ivy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

And found only the crackling of ivy - H.D. "Demeter"

Where the ivy crept around the ruined coping of the wall - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Ivy leaf from crack of doom - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

What the elf prince whispered to his ivy vine bride - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"

Red ivy iron fire and the brick blossoms florid - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

Dressed fancy in ivy and pride - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Wrapped with a century of ivy - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"

Down in the wood where the ivy clings - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]

Where weeds and ivy climb - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

The victors' tents with ivy crown'd - Felicia Hemans "The Wife of Asdrubal"

And bequeath this holly and this ivy - Robert Herrick "A Christmas Carol"

A cloud wrapped with ivy round - "I Saw a Peacock"

The long yard clotted with ivy and vasevine - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

And owls in the ivy blink - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"

A belt of straw and ivy buds - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

The ivy knew the way - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"

sprawling tentacles and gripping ivy - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

Climb on my old suffering like ivy - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin

Banished to the ivy tree - "Once"

As the ever-green ivy encircles the oak - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Ivy twined around the oars - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

The blind belief of ivy - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

That rustles in the leaves of flaunting ivy - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"


To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore - John Milton "L'Allegro"

If you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]


Ivy-fingered winds - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"


Yield rose-dust and ivy-leaf - Clark Ashton Smith "Sepulture"


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