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• And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

  Andrew Marvell

  Time, Lying, Desert

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)

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• 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

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• No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.

  Andrew Marvell

  Cutting, White, Flames

  Andrew Marvell (1997). “"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

  Andrew Marvell

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• 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

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• 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.

  Andrew Marvell

  World, This World, Ill

  Andrew Marvell (1873). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell ...: With ... a Translation of the Greek and Latin Poetry ...”, p.259

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Love, Despair, Strange

  'The Definition of Love' (1681)

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• 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

  Men, Years, Circles

  Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.96

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• 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

  Gay, Glasses, Mind

  c.1650-1652 'The Mower's Song' (published 1681).

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• 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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• 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. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  Andrew Marvell

  Sports, Running, Morning

  c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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• See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.

  Andrew Marvell

  Self, Rose, Dew

  c.1650-1652 'On a Drop of Dew' (published 1681).

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• How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

  Andrew Marvell

  Winning, Men, Tree

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 1

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Sea, Dutch, Propriety

  Andrew Marvell (1872). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell...”, p.243

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Fit, Wells

  1650 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'.

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• 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

  Sports, Time, Bird

  c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Country, War, Fall

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.142, Pearson Education

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Fall, Way, Rowing

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.58, Pearson Education

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

  Andrew Marvell

  Two, Paradise, Share

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 8

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