To win the palm, the oak, or bays," for 10 points, name this poem about the pastoral delights of the title location, written by Andrew Marvell.
One stanza of this poem compares the speaker's soul to a bird that "sits and sings, / then whets and combs its silver wings." The speaker of this poem rebukes "Fond lovers, cruel as their flame," who "Cut in these trees their mistress' name," and exclaims "Fair trees! wheresoe'er your barks I wound / No name shall but your own be found." Its eighth stanza discusses the pleasures of solitary life in the central location, and claims "Two paradises 'twere in one / To live in Paradise alone." In its fifth stanza, the speaker declares "What wondrous life is this I lead!" and describes "Stumbling on melons as I pass, / Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass." It compares the mind to an ocean "where each kind / Does straight its own resemblance find," and remarks that the mind "creates, transcending these / Far other worlds and other seas" by ? "Annihilating all that's made / To a green thought in a green shade." Beginning "How vainly men themselves amaze / To win the palm, the oak, or bays," for 10 points, name this poem about the pastoral delights of the title location, written by Andrew Marvell.
One stanza of this poem compares the speaker's soul to a bird that "sits and sings, / then whets and combs its silver wings.
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