 The red'ning apple ripens here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year.  The Antiquary - Page 106edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 pages
...offers a translation of Homer's description of the Gardens of Alcinous from Book VII of the Odyssey: Four Acres was th' allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around . . . The balmy Spirit of the Western Gale Eternal breathes on Fruits untaught to fail: Each dropping Pear a... | |
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