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Andrew Marvell Quotes

Andrew Marvell quotes

English Writer March 31, 1621 – August 16, 1678

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Andrew Marvell quote: "My love is of a birth as rare. As 'tis, for object, strange..."
My love is of a birth as rare. As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair. Upon Impossibility. Andrew Marvell
As lines, so love's oblique, may well. Themselves in every angle greet : But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell quote: "My vegetable love will grow. Vaster than empires, and more slow."
My vegetable love will grow. Vaster than empires, and more slow. Andrew Marvell
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-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all. Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife. Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun. Stand still, yet we will make him run. Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell quote: "What wondrous life in this I lead. Ripe apples drop about my head"
What wondrous life in this I lead. Ripe apples drop about my head Andrew Marvell
But at my back I always hear. Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie. Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound. My echoing song; then worms shall try. That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace. Andrew Marvell
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears. In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close. Andrew Marvell
Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame To wand’ring mowers shows the way, That in the night have lost their aim, And after foolish fires do stray; Your courteous lights in vain you waste, Since Juliana here is come, For she my mind hath so displac’d That I shall never find my home. Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell quote: "Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the..."
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell quote: "To wander solitary there:/ Two paradises ‘twere in one/ To..."
To wander solitary there:/ Two paradises ‘twere in one/ To live in paradise alone. Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell quote: "Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no..."
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime. Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell quote: "To world enough and time..."
To world enough and time... Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell quote: "Had we but world enough, and time ..."
Had we but world enough, and time ... Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell quote: "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
Andrew Marvell quote: "Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. Andrew Marvell

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