 | Gail Hamilton - 1866 - 380 pages
...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...their wine ; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hand themselves do reach," — past huge piles of wood, rough enough to such as should see only their... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...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...themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...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. How... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...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...themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness.... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...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...themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnarcd with flowers, 1 fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...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...themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1870 - 666 pages
...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...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, the curious peach. Into my hands themselves do reach. Btumbling on melons as I pass, JCnsnar'd with... | |
 | Barry Gray - 1871 - 376 pages
...gardens and vineyards, and it was Andrew Marvell, I think, who wrote, — ' What wondrous life is this to lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine • Upon my mouth do crush to wine ; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach.' Milton, knowing the wandering... | |
 | John Symons - 1872 - 188 pages
...Fair trees ! where'er 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...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and envious peach — Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...laurel grow ; 30 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 clusters of the vine 35 Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectaren and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do... | |
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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, Insnared with... 
