bramble's

For many yards I have for a companion a little wren, that flies from twig to twig through the well-nigh naked hedge along the wayside, now hidden behind a bramble's crimson-spotted leaf, now mingled with a tracery of twigs and thorns.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

Or in the horrid bramble's room Bid carelefs groups of rofes bloom;

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790