 What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers,...  The Essays of Elia - Page 114by Charles Lamb - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - 1855 - 622 pages
...IN; T,l It LOW COUNTRIES , *AtS*.rHUVVhni wondrous life Es this I lend ? Ripe apples drop about n,y head ; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush , heir wine ; 7'he nectarine and curious peach luto mv hands them.selves do -eath. MAKVKLU FOURTEENTH... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...fountains and sun dials. He is speaking of sweet garden scenes. " What wondrous life is (his I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. . The luscious clusters...from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness. The rnind, that ocean, where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find ; Yet it creates, transcending... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of the viive Upon my mouth do crash their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into...Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mmd from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness. The mind, that ocean, where each kind Does straight... | |
 | English confessors - 1860 - 380 pages
...remembered by the quotations of that exquisite critic, Charles Lamb. How pleasant is this picture ! " What wondrous life is this I lead ! Kipe apples drop...themselves do reach : Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. " Here at this fountain's sliding foot, Or at the fruit tree's... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 370 pages
...your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found. 4 What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of...themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. 5 Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its... | |
 | Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner - 1860 - 528 pages
...finishing his poem aloud, for the benefit of the company. " ' What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. 'The nectarine, the curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 pages
...your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found. 4 What wondrous life in this I lead! Eipe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush theft- wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...Pan did after Syrinx speed Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine j The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass,... | |
 | 1863 - 362 pages
...where'er your barks I wound, Xo name shall but our own be found. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of...themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flow'rs, I Jail on grass. Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness... | |
 | 1863 - 438 pages
...Pan did after Syrinx speed Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters...themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness... | |
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