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.
Those hollies of themselves a shape
As of an arbor took.
Coleridge—The Three Graves. Pt. IV. St. 24.
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.
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.
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.