Conium

"And eagerly she kist me with her tongue, And under mine her wanton thigh she flung. Yea, and she soothd me up, and calld me sire, And usde all speech that might provoke, and stirre. Yet like as if cold Hemlock I had drunke, It mocked me, hung downe the head, and sunke."

"BURGUNDY [lamenting the neglect of France]: Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd, Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts That should deracinate such savagery;"

"BANQUO [perhaps describing hemlock or ]: Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?"

"THIRD WITCH: Root of hemlock digged i’the dark,"

"CORDELIA [on her father]: Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. ..."

"O Gods! that ever anie thing so sweete, So suddenlie should fade awaie, and fleete! Hir armes are spread, and I am all unarm’d, Lyke one with Ovid’s cursed hemlocke charm’d;"

"Stinking’st of the stinking kind, Filth of the mouth and fog of the mind, Africa, that brags her foyson, Breeds no such prodigious poison, Henbane, nightshade, both together, Hemlock, aconite—"

"And bring me the flag that is moist with the wave, And the rush where the heath-winds sigh, And the hemlock plant, that flourishes so brave, And the poppy, with its coal-black eye;And weave them tightly, and weave them well, The fever of my head to allay;— And soon shall I faint with the death-weed smell, And sleep these throbbings away."

"Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late bloom’d in the way."

"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:"

"Bring out the hemlock! bring the funeral yew! The faithful ivy that doth all enfold; Heap high the rocks, the patient brown earth strew, And cover them against the numbing cold."

"He lookèd from his loft one day To where his slighted garden lay; Nettles and hemlock hid each lawn, And every flower was starved and gone."

"The grass, forerunner of life, has gone, But plants that spring in ruins and shards Attend until your dream is done: I have seen hemlock in your yards."