an example of bitterness, writing, "For a child knows as certainly before it can speak the difference between the ideas of sweet and bitter (i.e. that sweet is not bitter), as it knows afterwards (when it comes to speak) that wormwood and sugarplums are not the same thing." Edwin Arlington Robinson relates in a poem how Cliff Klingenhagen gave a guest a glass of wine while drinking a glass of wormwood himself. He concludes, "I have spent / Long time a-wondering when I shall be / As happy as Cliff Klingenhagen is." References External links Biodiversity Heritage Library bibliography for Artemisia absinthium Erowid Wormwood Vault- information on the use and preparation of wormwood, along with user experiences. European Medicines Agency (4 March 2020). European Union herbal monograph on Artemisia absinthium L., herba, Amsterdam absinthium Absinthe Medicinal plants of Africa Medicinal plants of Asia Medicinal plants of Europe Plants described in 1753 Edible plants Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus