 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...beauties her exceed ! Fair trees ! where'er your barks I wound, No name shall but our own be found. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do cnish their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...beauties her exceed ! Fair trees ! where'er your barks I wound, No name shall but our own l1e found. • What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The lusc1ous clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach,... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 120 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...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 498 pages
...quotations of that exquisite critic, Charles Lamb. How pleasant is this picture ! " 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, Ensnared with... | |
 | 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...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 William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 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...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - English essays - 1866 - 514 pages
...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 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...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 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...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,... | |
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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, Ensnared with... 
