 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,...  Essays of Elia - Página 92por Charles Lamb - 1835 - 412 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 páginas
...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 clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crash their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...grow. Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, the curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ensnared with... | |
 | 1840 - 372 páginas
...about my head. The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, the curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ensnared with flow'ers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its... | |
 | William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 páginas
...your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found. What wond'rous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and envious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insuared with flowers,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...where'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found. What wond'rous life in this I lead! Ripe It is astonishin;; how little obsoleto Insnar'd with flow'rs, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind from pleasure leu Withdraws into its happiness.... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1866 - 308 páginas
...POETWIOHT IN BRITTANY. great that we are reminded of Andrew Marvell's "Garden." "The nectarine, the curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, 1 fall on grass." Clisson is a small town about 20 miles south of Nantes, containing... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 324 páginas
...exquisite critic, Charles Lamb. How pleasant is this picture ! " What wondrous life is this I lead ! 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. " Here at this fountain's sliding foot, Or at the fruit tree's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 326 páginas
...exquisite critic, Charles Lamb. How pleasant is this picture ! " What wondrous life is this I lead ! 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. " Here at this fountain's sliding foot, Or at the fruit tree's... | |
 | 1851 - 724 páginas
...wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Г pon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach ; Mumbling on melons a» I pan», Iiiíiiared with flowers, I fall on grass." And elsewhere, speaking... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 páginas
...water-melons, occurs : — " What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head; 'I !»• luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine and furiout peach Into my bands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melont at I pa»», In?nared with flowers,... | |
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