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It is like handling brier-roses and may-blossoms, bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.
This is one of the many weeds that Emerson binds into a bouquet in his "Humble-Bee:" "Succory to match the sky, Columbine with horn of honey, Scented fern and agrimony, Clover, catchfly, adder's-tongue, And brier-roses, dwelt among."
Emerging from a particularly tedious breadth of chaparral, I found myself free and erect in a beautiful park-like grove of Mountain Live Oak, where the ground was planted with aspidiums and brier-roses, while the glossy foliage made a close canopy overhead, leaving the gray dividing trunks bare to show the beauty of their interlacing arches.
It is no longer the close compact vegetable wall of hawthorn, and maple, and brier-roses, intertwined with bramble and woodbine, and crowned with large elms or thickly-set saplings.
"It's hard to keep flowers in a city," said Jane. "I know it is. At our old house we had such a nice little rosebush in the front yard. I hated so to leave it behind one of those little yellow brier-roses. No, it wasn't yellow; it was just 'yaller. And it always scratched my nose when I tried to smell it. But oh, child" wistfully "if I could only smell it now!"
Uncouth birds whizzed in circles round her head, clanging and clamoring with their shrill voices, striving to beat her back with their flapping wings. The faint sweet fragrance of brier-roses clustering at the foot of the mountain wafted reproachfully upon the chill air an entreaty to return.
The roof of bark thatch had fallen away, leaving the bare beams overhead twined with brier-roses; the floor and house side were frescoed with those lichen colored spots which show that the gray planks have lacked paint for many long years; the windows had wooden shutters fastened back with irons shaped like the letter S, and on the central door was a brass knocker, and a plate bearing the words, 'United States Agency.
Syvert Like brier-roses thy red cheeks blush, Borghild And thine are rough like the thorny bush; Both An' a heigho! Syvert So fresh and green is the sunny lea; O heigh ho! Borghild The fiddle twangeth so merrily; O heigh ho! Syvert So lightly goeth the lusty reel, Borghild And round we whirl like a spinning-wheel; Both An' a heigho! Syvert Thine eyes are bright like the sunny fjord; O heigh ho!
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