What wond'rous life is this I lead Ripe apples drop about my head The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine The nectarine and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnar'd with flow'rs, I fall on grass.
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He nothing common did or mean; Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye; The axe's edge did try.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 glade ... Such was that happy garden-state, ...
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From cold Jealousie and Fears.
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But all resistance against her is vain Who has the advantage both of Eyes and Voice. And all my forces needs must be undone, She having gained both the Wind and Sun.
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Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
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