Andrew Marvell Professions : PoetBorn : March 31, 1621Died : August 16, 1678 Browse All Authors Top 44 quotes by Andrew Marvell My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. Andrew Marvell empiressexualityvegetables And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Andrew Marvell deserttimelying 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. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood. Andrew Marvell love-youtimethinking What wondrous life is this I lead! Andrew Marvell crushsummerlife What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head. Andrew Marvell applescookingfood 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. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Andrew Marvell runningmorningsports 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. Andrew Marvell gayglassesmind This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety. Andrew Marvell proprietydutchsea See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element. Andrew Marvell dewselfrose Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative. Andrew Marvell this-worldillworld Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. Andrew Marvell paradisesharetwo And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest. Andrew Marvell flowerkingsthinking How fit he is to sway That can so well obey. Andrew Marvell wellsfit Music, the mosaic of the air. Andrew Marvell mosaicsmusicair Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . . Andrew Marvell warcountryfall 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 timebirdsports But Fate does iron wedges drive, Andrew Marvell ironfatedoe How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree. Andrew Marvell winningtreemen Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns Andrew Marvell reignblind So much one man can do that does both act and know. Andrew Marvell knowsdoemen Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
