 Casting the body's vest aside. My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was that happy Garden-state...  Sunday readings (verses). - Page 204de Sunday readings - 1867Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 338 pages
...plumes, the various light! Such was that happy garden state, While Man there walked without a mate. After a place so pure and sweet, What other Help could...mortal's share To wander solitary there! Two Paradises 'twere in one, To live in Paradise alone! How well the skilful Gard'ner drew, Of flowers and herbs,... | |
 | 1899 - 788 pages
...While man there walked without a mate: After a place so pure and sweet, 60 What other help could yet bo meet ! But 'twas beyond a mortal's share To wander...Two paradises are in one, To live in paradise alone. 65 How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers, and herbs, this dial new, Where, from above, the... | |
 | Silas Weir Mitchell - 1900 - 616 pages
...wife, laughing, quoted : " Such was that happy garden state While man there walked without a mate : After a place so pure and sweet, What other help could yet be meet! But "i was beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there. Two paradises are in one To live in paradise... | |
 | Helen Gardner - 1967 - 340 pages
...Plumes the various Light. Such was that happy Garden-state, While Man there walk'd without a Mate: After a Place so pure, and sweet, What other Help...Mortal's share To wander solitary there : Two Paradises 'twere in one To live in Paradise alone.4 1. curious: exquisite. 2. It was a common opinion that all... | |
 | R. Wilcher - 1985 - 214 pages
...ever since the poem began: 8 Such was that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate: After a place so pure, and sweet, What other help...mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. In his lyric meditation, 'The Garden', Joseph Beaumont had... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1991 - 482 pages
...Willa Cather's Lost Horizons Such was that happy Garden-state, While Man there walk'd without a Mate: After a Place so pure, and sweet, What other Help...Mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two Paradises 'twere in one To live in Paradise alone. — Andrew Marvell A Woman here, leads fainting Israel on,... | |
 | Barbara McGovern - 1992 - 302 pages
...the eighth stanza of "Garden," rounds off his description of paradise with this startling assertion: But 'twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. (60-63) In her description of her retreat, Finch also evokes... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 pages
...delicious solitude. . . . Such was that happy garden state, While man there walked without a mate. After a place so pure and sweet, What other help could...mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. —Andrew Marvel (1621-1678), "The Garden"" Shelley wrote,... | |
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 pages
...that happy garden-state While man there walked without a mate: After a place so pure, and sweet 60 What other help could yet be meet! But 'twas beyond...mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. 65 How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs... | |
 | Tony Davies - 1997 - 170 pages
...would-be ungendered 'man': Such was that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate . . . But 'twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. (lines 57-64) Marvell's witty explicitness is as refreshing... | |
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