"For Juliana comes, and she, / What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me."

— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Robert Boulter
Date
1681?
Metaphor
"For Juliana comes, and she, / What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me."
Metaphor in Context
But what you in compassion ought,
Shall now by my revenge be wrought:
And flowers, and grass, and I and all,
Will in one common ruin fall.
For Juliana comes, and she,
What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.

(ll. 19-24)
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.