Andrew Marvell - Seas 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

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 shade.

Andrew Marvell

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

Andrew Marvell

And makes the hollow seas, that roar,
Proclaim the ambergris on shore.

Andrew Marvell

This indigested vomit of the Sea,
Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

Andrew Marvell