StoryTitle("caps", "Thoughts in a Garden ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How vainly men themselves amaze ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To win the palm, the oak, or bays, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And their uncessant labours see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Crown'd from some single herb or tree, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose short and narrow-vergéd shade ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Does prudently their toils upbraid; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While all the flowers and trees do close ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To weave the garlands of repose! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Innocence thy sister dear? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mistaken long, I sought you then ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In busy companies of men: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your sacred plants, if here below, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Only among the plants will grow: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Society is all but rude ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To this delicious solitude. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No white nor red was ever seen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So amorous as this lovely green. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cut in these trees their mistress' name: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little, alas! they know or heed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How far these beauties hers exceed! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair trees! wheres'e'er your barks I wound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No name shall but your own be found. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When we have run our passions' heat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love hither makes his best retreat: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The gods, that mortal beauty chase, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still in a tree did end their race; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Apollo hunted Daphne so ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Only that she might laurel grow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Pan did after Syrinx speed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not as a nymph, but for a reed. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What wondrous life in this I lead! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ripe apples drop about my head; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The luscious clusters of the vine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon my mouth do crush their wine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The nectarine and curious peach ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into my hands themselves do reach; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stumbling on melons, as I pass, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Withdraws into its happiness; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mind, that ocean where each kind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Does straight its own resemblance find; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet it creates, transcending these, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far other worlds, and other seas; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Annihilating all that's made ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To a green thought in a green shade. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here at the fountain's sliding foot, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Casting the body's vest aside, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My soul into the boughs does glide; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, like a bird, it sits and sings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then whets and combs its silver wings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, till prepared for longer flight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waves in its plumes the various light. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such was that happy Garden-state ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While man there walk'd without a mate: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "After a place so pure and sweet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What other help could yet be meet! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But 'twas beyond a mortal's share ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To wander solitary there: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Two paradises 'twere in one, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To live in Paradise alone. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How well the skilful gard'ner drew ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of flowers and herbs this dial new! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where, from above, the milder sun ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Does through a fragrant zodiac run: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, as it works, th' industrious bee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Computes its time as well as we. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How could such sweet and wholesome hours ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers! ", "") ?>
Poet("Andrew Marvell", "1621–1678") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>