Myrtle

' may refer to the family ', the genus , or the species .

Quotes

 * Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the L ORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
 * Isaiah 55:13 (KJV)


 * Nor myrtle—which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning,  (1856), bk. II


 * Julia will her Manlius wed, Good with good, a blessed bed: Like a myrtle tree in flower, Taken from an Asian bower, Where with many a dewy cup Nymphs in play had nursed it up.
 * Catullus 61, as translated by Leigh Hunt, The Examiner (12 May 1816)
 * Cp. Samuel Sheppard, "Epithalamium", The Loves of Amandus and Sophronia (1650)


 * The myrtle (ensign of supreme command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand) Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Oft favors, oft rejects a lover's prayer; In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain.
 * Samuel Johnson, "Written at the Request of a Gentleman", l. 3; The Gentleman's Magazine (April 1779), p. 206


 * Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low,  A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.
 * James Montgomery, "The Myrtle", st. 1, The Gentleman's Magazine (January 1839), p. 59


 * While the myrtle, now idly entwin'd with his crown, Like the wreath of Harmodius, shall cover his sword.
 * Thomas Moore, "O, Blame Not The Bard", st. 3, Memoirs (1800), p. 209


 * For Adoration myrtles stay To keep the garden from dismay, And bless the sight from dearth.
 * Christopher Smart,  (1763)