Andrew Marvell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)
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“Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : 'To His coy Mistress' (1681) l. 1
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“How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : 'The Garden' (1681) st. 1
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“Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.”
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“Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "The Garden" l. 47 (1681)
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“No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : Andrew Marvell (1997). “"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation
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“Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : 'The Garden' (1681) st. 7
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“And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.”
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“The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.91
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“How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?”
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“Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .”
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“He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" l. 57 (written 1650)
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“Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.”
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“Music, the mosaic of the air.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.151, Pearson Education
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“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.”
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“What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : 'The Garden' (1681) st. 5
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“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.”
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“This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.”
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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.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.”
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“As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : 'The Definition of Love' (1681)
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“So much one man can do that does both act and know.”
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“My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow;”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 7 (1681)
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“Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.”
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“And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.”
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“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 glade ... Such was that happy garden-state, ...”
-- Andrew MarvellSource : Andrew Marvell (2016). “"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications
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“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.”
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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. 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
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