Andrew Marvell - Garden Quotes

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Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade... Such was that happy garden-state,...

Andrew Marvell

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

Andrew Marvell

Oh thou, that dear and happy isle
The garden of the world ere while,
Thou paradise of four seas.

Andrew Marvell