 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...  Selections from the British Poets - Página 1631840Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 348 páginas
...talk of fountains and sun-dials. He is speaking of sweet garden scenes : What wondrous life in this-1 lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 480 páginas
...about my head ; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my month do crush their wine ; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach ;...as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. " Here at this fountain's sliding foot, Or at the fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 páginas
...fountains and sua-dials. He is speaking of sweet garden scenes : What wondrous life in this I lead I Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1895 - 314 páginas
...beyond the Civil Wars. Here are the three loveliest of nine lovely stanzas : ' What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The...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... | |
 | Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 páginas
...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 about my head; The luscious...Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1895 - 368 páginas
...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 about my head; The luscious...Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons as I pass, Insnared with... | |
 | Barbara L. Estrin - 1994 - 366 páginas
...Where the Petrarchan woman runs away from man, the flirtatious nature of "The Garden" runs into him: V What wond'rous Life in 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... | |
 | David Pascoe - 1997 - 250 páginas
...savagery. But beyond this, the pastoral worlds of, say, Andrew Marvell's gardens lead only to ruin: What wond'rous Life in this I lead Ripe Apples drop...of the Vine Upon my mouth do crush their Wine; The Nectarean and the curious Peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on Melons, as I pass,... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...so Only that she 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...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... | |
 | Andrew Shifflett - 1998 - 196 páginas
...fed with this Beauty." MarvelPs poet is hungry for such beauty in stanza 5: What wond'rous Life is this I lead! Ripe Apples drop about my head; The Luscious...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... | |
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