vine quotes

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms128:3.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

- Andrew Marvell
c.1650^1652  'The Garden' (published1681), stanza 5.

But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn.

-John Milton
  Lycidas, l.37^41.

For love is of the valley, come thou down And find him; by the happy threshold, he, Or hand in hand with Plenty in the maize, Or red with spirited purple of the vats, Or foxlike in the vine; nor cares to walk With Death and Morning on the silver horns.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.7, added song, l.184^9.