...previously cited in "Old Benchers," calling upon the woodbine and brambles to "Curl me about . . . And oh so close your circles lace, /That I may never leave this place" (Works, 2: 155). The circular form of the essay itself curls back upon the pivotal word "circles" in...

...forever from the dangers of sexual and military warfare beyond the protective screen of the trees: 'And, oh, so close your circles lace, / That I may never leave this place' (stanza 77). As the flood recedes, to reveal a landscape cleansed and restored to pristine innocence,...

...York. He commands his communicants to hold him in the wood: Bind me ye Woodbines in your 'twines, Curie me about ye gadding Vines, And Oh so close your Circles lace, That I may never leave this Place. (609-12) The temptation to remain ("Oh what a Pleasure 'tis to hedge / My Temples here with heavy sedge"...

...around him is soon invoked as a stay against his departure. Bind me ye Woodbines in your 'twines, Curle me about ye gadding Vines, And Oh so close your Circles lace, That I may never leave this Place. (609-12) Why is it necessary to tie him up in order to keep him where he purportedly wants to be? The...

...west staircase. Etched on a slab of a marble garden bench that stood nearby was a piece of poetry: Bind me, ye woodbines, in your 'twines, Curl me about,...your circles lace That I may never leave this place. — The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb Those words had a strangely prophetic ring. In the surrounding...

...shot Can make, or me it toucheth not, But I on it securely play, And gall its horsemen all the day. Bind me, ye woodbines in your twines. Curl me about,...your circles lace, That I may never leave this place! Here was a youth not much past seventeen. In his face the welt schmerz contends with the pride in his...

...than living man." He calls upon the woodlands of Nunappleton to save him from the noisy world : — "Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines, Curl me about,...your circles lace That I may never leave this place." Again he says : — " How safe, methinks, and strong, behind These trees have I encamped my mind,"...

...Eden? — So far from a wish to roam, I would have drawn, methought, still closer the fences of my chosen prison; and have been hemmed in by a yet securer cincture of those excluding garden walls. (2:155) For the child there will be no tempting a watery fate as in "Ears" or in "Witches," no plunge...