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Andrew Marvell
65 quotes
“For though the whole world cannot show such another, Yet we’d better by far have him than his brother.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Statue in Stocks-Market, line 59 (1689)
“Art indeed is long, but life is short.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1649 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649), last line
“The world in all doth but two nations bear — The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Loyal Scot (1650-1652)
“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, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To His Coy Mistress, line 1 (1650-1652)
“An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd 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 preserved virginity, And your quaint honor 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 (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She with her eyes my heart does bind, She with her voice might captivate my mind.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, By his own Sythe, the Mower mown. Alas! said He, these hurts are slight To those that dye by Loves despight.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The inglorious arts of peace.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, line 10 (1650)
“He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try: Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head, Down as upon a bed.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now the Irish are ashamed To see themselves in one year tamed: So much one man can do, That does both act and know.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How fit is he to sway That can so well obey.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1653 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Character of Holland (c. 1653)
“This indigested vomit of the Sea, Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Among the blind the one-eye'd blinkard reigns.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My love is of a birth as rare As ’tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing, Where feeble Hope could ne’er have flown But vainly flapped its tinsel wing.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Definition of Love, stanzas 1 and 2 (1650-1652)
“But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love's whole world on us doth wheel.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.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 (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their uncessant labours see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow vergéd shade Does prudently their toils upbraid, While all flowers and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Garden, stanza 1 (1650-1652)
“Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In busy companies of men.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 shade.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here at the fountain’s sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree’s mossy root, Casting the body’s vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such was that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But ’twas beyond a mortal’s share To wander solitary there: Two paradises ’twere in one To live in paradise alone.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music, the mosaic of the air.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where the remote Bermudas ride, In th' ocean's bosom unespied.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1657 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bermudas, line 1 (1657)
“He hangs in shades the Orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And makes the hollow seas, that roar, Proclaim the ambergris on shore. He cast (of which we rather boast) The gospel’s pearl upon our coast.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh let our voice his praise exalt, Till it arrive at heaven’s vault: Which thence (perhaps) rebounding, may Echo beyond the Mexique Bay.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis all enforced, the fountain and the grot, While the sweet fields do lie forgot, Where willing Nature does to all dispense A wild and fragrant innocence.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late And studying all the summer night Her matchless songs does meditate;Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses' fall;Ye glow-worms whose officious flame To wandering 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 displaced That I shall never find my home.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For Juliana comes, and she, What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If these the Times, then this must be the Man.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Choosing each stone, and poising every weight, Trying the measures of the breadth and height; Here pulling down, and there erecting new, Founding a firm state by proportions true.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a wondrous thing, how fleet ’Twas on those little silver feet. With what a pretty skipping grace, It oft would challenge me the race: And when ’t had left me far away, ’Twould stay, and run again, and stay. For it was nimbler much than hinds; And trod, as on the four winds.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is translation’s thief that addeth more, As much as he that taketh from the store Of the first author.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To His Worthy Friend Dr. Witty (1651)