Andrew Marvell quotes - page 2

She with her eyes my heart does bind, She with her voice might captivate my mind. (Andrew Marvell)
How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath? View quote
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I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow. View quote
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No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place. View quote
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But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed. View quote
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. View quote
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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. View quote
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While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, by his own Sythe, the Mower mown. View quote
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But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. View quote
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Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. View quote
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The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. (Andrew Marvell)
Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. View quote
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Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. View quote
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