| Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...beauties her exceed ! Fair trees ! where'er your barks I wound No name shall but your 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... | |
| Abraham Holroyd - Ballads, English - 1873 - 228 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...vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach ; StumUing on melons as I pass, Ensnared with... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 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...Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insuared with... | |
| English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...so, Only that she might laurel grow : And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. 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, Insnared with... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...if here below, Only among the plants will grow. Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...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... | |
| 1875 - 588 pages
...NOVEMBER, 1875. ODDS AND ENDS OF WEATHER WISDOM AND FRAGMENTS OF FOLK LORE. AUGUST. ' 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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...talk of fountains and sun dials. He is speaking of sweet garden scenes. " What wondrous life is (his I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I p5ss, Insnared with... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...your barks I wound, So name shall but your own be found. What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ki|ie apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnarvd with... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is this I lead! IƮipe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; snow The neetarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 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 vino Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do... | |
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