| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 582 pages
...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...their wine ; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into ray hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.... | |
| Girls - 1881 - 390 pages
...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 about my head ; The...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 pages
...laurel grow ; And Pan did after Syrinx speed Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is uardian, if need were, To k lee; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1881 - 472 pages
...talk of fountains, and sundials. He is speaking of sweet garden scenes : — What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my moutli do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling... | |
| 1881 - 424 pages
...fancy many of us rise from the perusal of this work feeling as the poet Marvill did when he says — li Ripe apples drop about my head, The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do erush their wine. The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1882 - 464 pages
...talk of fountains and sundials. 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:... | |
| 1882 - 582 pages
...many of us rise from the perusal of this work feeling as the poet Marvill did when he says — '• Ripe apples drop about my head, The luscious clusters...themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons as I pass, Insnared with flVwers I fall on grass." By Augustus T. Perkins, AM, of Boston. Chicago Antiquities,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...might laurel grow: And Pan did after Syrinx speed Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is melous, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I full on grass. Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1882 - 362 pages
...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 clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crash their wine ; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on... | |
| Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1883 - 486 pages
...as fruit is concerned, is not restored, and are ready to say with Marvell, " What wondrous life is this I lead? Ripe apples drop about my head, The luscious...curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach." and exclaim with Downing, "A man who owns a rod of proper land in this country, and in the face of... | |
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