Had it lived long, is would have been Andrew Marvell More Quotes by Andrew Marvell More Quotes From Andrew Marvell And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Andrew Marvell desert time lying 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-you time thinking What wondrous life is this I lead! Andrew Marvell crush summer life What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head. Andrew Marvell apples cooking food 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 running morning sports 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 gay glasses mind This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety. Andrew Marvell propriety dutch sea 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 dew self rose 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-world ill world Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. Andrew Marvell paradise share two 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 flower kings thinking How fit he is to sway That can so well obey. Andrew Marvell wells fit Music, the mosaic of the air. Andrew Marvell mosaics music air Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . . Andrew Marvell war country fall 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 time bird sports But Fate does iron wedges drive, Andrew Marvell iron fate doe 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 winning tree men Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns Andrew Marvell reign blind So much one man can do that does both act and know. Andrew Marvell knows doe men Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Andrew Marvell circles men years