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Andrew Marvell quotes: How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?

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

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

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.

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

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

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

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

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

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

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

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow.

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Andrew Marvell quotes: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

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

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

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: 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.

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

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: Had we but world enough, and time

Had we but world enough, and time

Andrew Marvell quotes: The same arts that did gainA power, must it maintain.

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

Andrew Marvell quotes: My love is of a birth as rareAs 'tis, for object, strange and high;It was begotten by DespairUpon Impossibility.

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: But Fate does iron wedges drive,And always crowds itself betwixt.

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: Had it lived long, is would have beenLilies without, roses within.

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: Music, the mosaic of the air

Music, the mosaic of the air

Andrew Marvell quotes: So much one man can do that does both act and know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Andrew Marvell quotes: Art indeed is long, but life is short.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

Andrew Marvell quotes: What wondrous life in this I leadRipe apples drop about my head

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

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

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

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

Andrew Marvell quotes: 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.

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.