 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,...  Life, Letters, and Writings - Página 273por Charles Lamb - 1882Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 páginas
...trees ! where'er your barks I wound, ^Jo namo shall but your own be found. 4 What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The...themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall ou grass. 5 Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its... | |
 | Girls - 1881 - 390 páginas
...and we owe to him one exquisite line which must often be in the mind of every person who loves them : 'What wondrous life is this I lead ? Ripe apples drop...of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; THE ELIZABETHAN GARDENS. 89 The nectarine and curious peach Into my hand themselves do reach ; Stumbling... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...so Only that she might laurel grow ; And Pan did after Syrinx speed Not as a nymph, but for a reed. ld send a 4 lee; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I... | |
 | Peter J. Hatch - 1998 - 268 páginas
...COUNTRIES; MASSACHUSETTS • PENNSYLVANIA ; INDIANA ; CINCINNATI, ETC. What wondrous life is this I lead 1 Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters...and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach. 1 MARVELL, NINTH EDITION, REVISED. NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY, 1 GP PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY. 155 BROADWAY. 1849.... | |
 | Andrew Shifflett - 1998 - 196 páginas
...taken, nay cherished, and 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...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... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 378 páginas
...drop about my head; The Luscious Clusters 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 with Flow'rs, I fall on Grass. (ll. 33-40) The alternative universal history of the contemplative... | |
 | Richard Sterling - 1999 - 340 páginas
...pate, the coolest possible draughting of white wine in the sun. It reminded me of Andrew Marvell— What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe Apples drop...Clusters of the Vine Upon my mouth do crush their Wine... As it happens nobody could be much less pretentious about food and wine than my epicurean host that... | |
 | Wim Tigges - 1999 - 500 páginas
...Eternity. The Grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.2 What wond'rous Life in 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... | |
 | Noam Flinker - 2000 - 190 páginas
...have their analogues in Marvell's account of physical pleasure in 'The Garden': What wond'rous Life in 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... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 páginas
...30 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...themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, 40 Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. 6 Meanwhile the mind, from pleasures less, Withdraws into... | |
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