| Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes, David Tombs - 2001 - 506 pągines
...almost aggressively forces itself upon the stroller in Marveil's rather better-known poem, The Garden': 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." The element of threat in the more secular poem would be out... | |
| Andrew Hadfield - 2001 - 302 pągines
...quite conscious here. But what of these lines from Andrew Marvell's 'The Garden'? What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious...clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. (33-6) Whether or not this is a Spenserian allusion,9 it exploits a trait of style that in Spenser's... | |
| Christiane Augner - 2001 - 252 pągines
...Not as a nypmh, but for a reed. What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; 35 The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarene, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, 40... | |
| Thomas Chatterton, Grevel Lindop - 200 pągines
...This habit operates throughout his poetry. Here is a stanza from 'The Garden': Whai wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious...themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. (33-40) As William Empson pointed out in his essay on 'The... | |
| Jonathan F. S. Post - 2002 - 316 pągines
...a repetition of the fall, from apple through sex, with Nature this time the irresistible temptress: What wond'rous Life is this I lead! Ripe Apples drop...of the Vine Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine; The Nectaren, and curious Peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on Melons, as I pass, Insnar'd... | |
| Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pągines
...laurel grow; 30 And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed.* 5 What wondrous life in this I lead!* Ripe apples drop about my head; The...of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarene and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ensnared... | |
| Charles Quest-Ritson - 2003 - 302 pągines
...Marvell wrote seductively about the pleasures of fruit in his poem 'The Garden', written in about 1650: What wond'rous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop...of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectaren and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnar'd... | |
| Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pągines
...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...of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarene, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared... | |
| Tom Harpur - 2004 - 172 pągines
...life. Or as St. Irenaeus put it, "The glory of God is [humanity] fully i- .» ' . \ alive! • •• What wondrous life is this I lead! , Ripe apples drop...clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. ANDREW MARVELL V. v V . . ' -'• 5 J • . it » V The Healthful Blessi mes of the Grape L'euu pour... | |
| Nicholas Low - 2005 - 270 pągines
...might 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 luscious...themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass. Ensnared with flow'rs, I fall on grass. Mean while the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness;... | |
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