Hidden fields
Books Books
" 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... "
Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People - Page 324
by Mary Russell Mitford - 1853
Full view - About this book

Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; * »•» The nectarine, and curious pcacli. Into my hands 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...
Full view - About this book

Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious iieach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnaivd with flowere, I fall on grass. Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness,...
Full view - About this book

Works of Charles Lamb: Edited and Dramatic Tales, Essays and Critisms

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1876 - 740 pages
...speaking of sweet garden scenes : What wondrous life is this I lend ! Ripe appjes drop about my bead. The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach. Into my hands themselves do teach. C C. Stuml ling on melons,-as I pass. Insnarcd...
Full view - About this book

Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...fair trees ! where'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found. What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of the vine I'pon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach....
Full view - About this book

Classical English Reader: Selections from Standard Authors. With Explanatory ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...fountains and sun-dials. He is speaking of sweet garden-scenes : What wondrous life is this I lead ! Eipe apples drop about my head : The luscious clusters...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...
Full view - About this book

Favorite Odes and Poems: By Collins, Dryden and Marvell

William Collins - 1877 - 104 pages
...Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life is this I lead ! Rips apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wiiie; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as...
Full view - About this book

Complete Manual of Analysis and Paraphrasing

William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - Analysis (Philosophy) - 1877 - 240 pages
...with a resistless smile, came forth to do thee homage. 29. Our English archers bent their bows. 30. The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. QUESTIONS ON §§ 9 — 14. 1. What is a simple subject? 2. Of what kinds of words may a simple subject...
Full view - About this book

The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...speed, Nbt as a nymph, but for a reed. What wondrous life in this 1 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, Insnared with...
Full view - About this book

Harper's Young People, Volume 11, Part 1

Children's literature - 1889 - 472 pages
...Man-ell's "The Garden," of the spirit of which this stanza will give a fair idea : "What a 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, Insnar'd with...
Full view - About this book

Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF