"My mind was once the true survey / Of all these meadows fresh and gay"

— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Robert Boulter
Date
1681?
Metaphor
"My mind was once the true survey / Of all these meadows fresh and gay"
Metaphor in Context
My mind was once the true survey
Of all these meadows fresh and gay
;
And in the greenness of the grass
Did see its hopes as in a glass;
When Juliana came, and she,
What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.
(ll. 1-6)
Provenance
Reading Norton Critical Edition of Seventeenth Century British Poetry, 1603-1660
Citation
Andrew Marvell, Miscellaneous Poems (1681). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
12/15/2006

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.