Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place : But lest your fetters prove too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And,... A Library of American Literature... - Page 39by Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889Full view - About this book
| Andrew Marvell - Early poetry - 1985 - 324 pages
...it securely play, And gall its horsemen all the day. 77 Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines, 610 Curl me about, ye gadding vines, And, oh, so close...break, Do you, 0 brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through. . 78 Here in the morning tie my chain, Where the two woods have made a lane,... | |
| Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani - Barock - 1980 - 262 pages
...grove."9 Ce qui est de plus sinistre, c'est que le poète succombe à cet enchaînement; il l'implore: Bind me, ye woodbines in your twines, Curl me about,...too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, о brambles, chain me too, And courteous briars, nail me through. (St. 77) Le corps envahi par des... | |
| Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botanical illustration - 1904 - 290 pages
...about, ye godding vines, And oh ! go close \ our circles lace, That I may never leave this place : Bat, lest your fetters prove too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break. Bo yon, O bramblers, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through ! " MiRTlLL. LONDON: LOVELL... | |
| Gerald Monsman - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 182 pages
...previously cited in "Old Benchers," calling upon the woodbine and brambles to "Curl me about . . . And oh so close your circles lace, /That I may never leave this place" (Works, 2: 155). The circular form of the essay itself curls back upon the pivotal word "circles" in... | |
| R. Wilcher - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 214 pages
...forever from the dangers of sexual and military warfare beyond the protective screen of the trees: 'And, oh, so close your circles lace, / That I may never leave this place' (stanza 77). As the flood recedes, to reveal a landscape cleansed and restored to pristine innocence,... | |
| Margarita Stocker - Apocalyptic literature - 1922 - 162 pages
...iron gates of life : Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run ; in : Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines, Curl me about, ye gadding vines, like a bound of the heart, and in the intoxicated surrender of personal identity in the famous Garden... | |
| Andrew Marvell - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 308 pages
...shot Can make, or me it toucheth not. But I on it securely play, And gall its horsemen all the day. 77 Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines, Curl me about ye gadding vines, 610 And O so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place: But, lest your fetters prove... | |
| Patsy Griffin - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 228 pages
...York. He commands his communicants to hold him in the wood: Bind me ye Woodbines in your 'twines, Curie me about ye gadding Vines, And Oh so close your Circles lace, That I may never leave this Place. (609-12) The temptation to remain ("Oh what a Pleasure 'tis to hedge / My Temples here with heavy sedge"... | |
| Marshall Grossman - History - 1998 - 378 pages
...crucifixion by the briars in "Upon Appleton House": "Bind me ye I Woodbines in your 'twines, / Cur1e me about ye gadding Vines, / And Oh so close your...weak, / Ere I your Silken Bondage break, / Do you, O Brambles, chain me too, / And courteous Briars nail me through" (ll. 609-16). 38 Being and Time,... | |
| Susan Snyder - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
...around him is soon invoked as a stay against his departure. Bind me ye Woodbines in your 'twines, Curle me about ye gadding Vines, And Oh so close your Circles lace, That I may never leave this Place. (609-12) Why is it necessary to tie him up in order to keep him where he purportedly wants to be? The... | |
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