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Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
Andrew Marvell
Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
Andrew Marvell
Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
Andrew Marvell
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
Andrew Marvell
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Andrew Marvell
The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
Andrew Marvell
He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.
Andrew Marvell
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
Andrew Marvell
What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Andrew Marvell
So much one man can do, That does both act and know.
Andrew Marvell
As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.
Andrew Marvell
An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.
Andrew Marvell
p>Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late And studying all the summer night Her matchless songs does meditate;Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses's fall;Ye glow-worms whose officious flame To wandering mowers shows the way, That in the night have lost their aim And after foolish fires do stray;Your courteous lights in vain you waste, Since juliana here is come, For she my mind hath so displaced That I shall never find my home.
Andrew Marvell
Love's whole world on us doth wheel.
Andrew Marvell
Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
Andrew Marvell
Where the remote Bermudas ride, In th' ocean's bosom unespied.
Andrew Marvell
...the inglorious arts of peace...
Andrew Marvell
Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude.
Andrew Marvell
Now therefore while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Andrew Marvell
In busy companies of men.
Andrew Marvell
Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Andrew Marvell
How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ("Horatian Ode," 83-84).
Andrew Marvell
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