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Yellow jessamine

noun

Poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers. Synonyms: Carolina jasmine, evening trumpet flower, Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jasmine.

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... it blew, Yet wavered oft, and flew Most ficklewise about, or here, or there, A music now from earth and now from air. But on a sudden, lo! I marked a blossom shiver to and fro With dainty inward storm; and there within A down-drawn trump of yellow jessamine A bee Thrust up its sad-gold body lustily, All in a honey madness hotly bound On blissful burglary. A cunning sound In that wing-music held me: down I lay In amber shades of many a golden spray, Where looping low with languid arms the ...

— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier

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