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How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.

Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

If these the Times, then this must be the Man.
[Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

My vegetable love will grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

For Juliana comes, and she, what I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

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.

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.

Had we but world enough, and time

The same arts that did gain
A power, must it maintain.

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.

But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.

Had it lived long, is would have been
Lilies without, roses within.

Music, the mosaic of the air

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall ...

Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

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.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

What wondrous life in this I lead
Ripe apples drop about my head

As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

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.