 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 55by Charles Lamb - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Barry Gray - 1871 - 376 pages
...gardens and vineyards, and it was Andrew Marvell, I think, who wrote, — ' What wondrous life is this to lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine • Upon my mouth do crush to wine ; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach.' Milton, knowing the wandering... | |
 | John Symons - 1872 - 188 pages
...beauties her exceed ! Fair trees ! where'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found. What wond'rous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and envious peach — Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 564 pages
...fTnly that she miglittaiirel grow ; 30 And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. {/What wond'rous life is this I lead! Ripe apples...about my head ; The luscious clusters of the vine \ 35 Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The neetaren and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...Fair trees ! where'er your barks I wound No name shall but your own be found. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head : The...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... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 pages
...so, Only that she might laurel grow; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wond'rous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach ; StumUing on melons as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. 10 Meanwhile thc mind, from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...so. Only that she might laurel grow; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop...themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insuared with flowers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...laurel grow : And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The...as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass. The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find ; Yet it creates, transcending... | |
 | 1875 - 588 pages
...Members of tfje NOVEMBER, 1875. ODDS AND ENDS OF WEATHER WISDOM AND FRAGMENTS OF FOLK LORE. AUGUST. ' What wondrous life is this I lead ? Ripe apples drop...themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.' Andrew Marrcll. As July owes its name to Julius Caesar, so... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 pages
...among the plants will grow. Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...talk of 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...hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I p5ss, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into... | |
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