John Crowe Ransom analogized the tension between poetry and prose in this poem to a duel between Mr. A and Mr. B that devolves into stone-throwing, in his essay "A Poem Nearly Anonymous." This poem laments that "the blind Fury with the abhorred shears… slits the thin-spun life," prompting Phoebus to touch its speaker's "trembling / ears" and declare that "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil." Critics remain puzzled about this poem's image of a "two-handed engine at the door" that "Stands ready to smite once, and smite no / more." In its first stanza, the speaker tells "ye laurels" and "ye myrtles brown" that "I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude," then asks: "Who would not sing for" this poem's title character. The subject of this poem is reborn as "the Genius of the shore" 
John Crowe Ransom analogized the tension between poetry and prose in this poem to a duel between Mr. A and Mr. B that devolves into stone-throwing, in his essay "A Poem Nearly Anonymous." This poem laments that "the blind Fury with the abhorred shears… slits the thin-spun life," prompting Phoebus to touch its speaker's "trembling / ears" and declare that "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil." Critics remain puzzled about this poem's image of a "two-handed engine at the door" that "Stands ready to smite once, and smite no / more." In its first stanza, the speaker tells "ye laurels" and "ye myrtles brown" that "I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude," then asks: "Who would not sing for" this poem's title character. The subject of this poem is reborn as "the Genius of the shore" after drowning in a shipwreck. For 10 points, name this pastoral elegy for Edward King, written by John Milton.
John Crowe Ransom analogized the tension between poetry and prose in this poem to a duel between Mr. A and Mr. B that devolves into stone-throwing, in his essay "A Poem Nearly Anonymous."