Andrew Marvell Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

  Andrew Marvell

  Flower, Bud, Moments

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.115, Pearson Education

• What wondrous life is 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

  Life, Crush, Summer

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Flower, Long, Rose

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Sweet, Flower, Herbs

  Andrew Marvell, Bill Hutchings (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.61, Psychology Press

• 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

  Flower, Garden, Rose

  'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn' (1681) l. 71

• 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.

  Andrew Marvell

  Kings, Flower, Thinking

  c.1650-1652 'The Coronet' (published 1681).

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