 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1880 - 496 pages
...pleasantly illustrated by Andrew Marvell. Singing of the "Garden," he says.: " What wondrous 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 ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass Insnared with... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...coat, Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove. Thomson, Summer. FRUIT. 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... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...death — man's life is done. ANDREW MARVELL. l62O — 1678. THE FLOWER-DIAL. 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 flowers... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1880 - 496 pages
...pleasantly illustrated by Andrew Marvell. Singing of the "Garden," he says : " What wondrous 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 ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass Insnared with... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. VOL. IL C c What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters of a vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. VOL. II. C c What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters of a vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves... | |
 | Wim Tigges - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 500 pages
...Desarts of vast Eternity. The Grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.2 What wond'rous Life in this I lead! Ripe Apples drop...of the Vine Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine; The Nectaren, and curious Peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on Melons, as I pass, Insnar'd... | |
 | Richard Sterling - Cooking - 1999 - 340 pages
...possible draughting of white wine in the sun. It reminded me of Andrew Marvell— 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... As it happens nobody could be much less pretentious about food and wine than my epicurean host that... | |
 | Noam Flinker - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 190 pages
...'doune I fall' all have their analogues in Marvell's account of physical pleasure in 'The Garden': What wond'rous Life in this I lead! Ripe Apples drop...of the Vine Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine; The Nectaren, and curious Peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on Melons, as I pass, Insnar'd... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 302 pages
...use of Spenser is quite conscious here. But what of these lines from Andrew Marvell's 'The Garden'? What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop...clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. (33-6) Whether or not this is a Spenserian allusion,9 it exploits a trait of style that in Spenser's... | |
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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... 
