| Gail Hamilton - 1866 - 380 páginas
...sweetly sung to my charmed ear those rich lines of old Andrew Marvell, — " 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 hand themselves do reach," — past huge piles of wood, rough enough to such... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 514 páginas
...Lamb. How pleasant is this picture ! " What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about ray 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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 páginas
...talk of fountains and sun-dials. He is speaking of sweet garden scenes : — 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, Insnared with... | |
| Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 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...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,... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 páginas
...And Pan did after Syrinx speed Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is this I lead I Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters...Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine and " : i"s r":ach •- ha r i' 1 " *• "each ; Two paradises are in one, To live in Paradise alone.... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 páginas
...fountains, and sunJials. He is speaking of sweet garden scenes : — What wondrous life is 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... | |
| Susan Bogert Warner - 1870 - 666 páginas
...finishing his poem aloud for the benefit of the company. . " « What wondrous life is this I lead 1 Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters...curious peach. Into my hands themselves do reach. Btumbling on melons as I pass, JCnsnar'd with flowers, I fall on grass. Here, at the fountain's sliding... | |
| English poems - 1870 - 722 páginas
...beauties her exceed ! Fair trees ! where'er your barks I wound, Nu name shall but our own be found. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...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 Marvell - 1870 - 224 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...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... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 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...Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnarcd with... | |
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