 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,...  Andrew Marvell - Pàgina 45per Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 241 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pàgines
...beauties her exceed! fair trees ! where'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found. What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of the vine I'pon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 pàgines
...fountains and sun-dials. He is speaking of sweet garden-scenes : What wondrous life is this I lead ! Eipe 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 miud, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its... | |
 | William Collins - 1877 - 104 pàgines
...Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is this I lead ! Rips apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wiiie; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pàgines
...with a resistless smile, came forth to do thee homage. 29. Our English archers bent their bows. 30. The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. QUESTIONS ON §§ 9 — 14. 1. What is a simple subject? 2. Of what kinds of words may a simple subject... | |
 | 1889 - 472 pàgines
...mentioned Andrew Man-ell's "The Garden," of the spirit of which this stanza will give a fair idea : "What a wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about...themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnar'd with flow'rs, I fall on grass." Another, and a very charming selection is Praed's " Quince,"... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pàgines
...wondrous life i,- this I lead 1 Ripe apples drop about my bend. The luv inn- clusters of the vine Vpon erfection, which they have not. I gain nothing by being with such as шу imii'U themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I puss, Insnared with flowers I fall on grass.... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - 1880 - 496 pàgines
...productions of horticulture is pleasantly illustrated by Andrew Marvell. Singing of the "Garden," he says : " What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...as I pass Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass." The love of horticulture also affords an index of character. Buckle, in his "History of Civilization,"... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pàgines
...strip thee of thy tufty coat, Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove. Thomson, Summer. FRUIT. WHAT wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Andrew Marvell. FUTURE STATE. THE prospect of a future state is the secret comfort and refreshment... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - 1880 - 496 pàgines
...productions of horticulture is pleasantly illustrated by Andrew Marvell. Singing of the "Garden," he says.: " What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...as I pass Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass." The love of horticulture also affords an index of character. Buckle, in his •"History of Civilization,"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 582 pàgines
...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...their wine ; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into ray hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.... | |
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