Quotes by Andrew Marvell

About Andrew Marvell:

Andrew Marvell is associated with John Donne and George Herbert. He was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems include "To His Coy Mistress", "The Garden", "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland", "The Mower's Song" and the country house poem "Upon Appleton House".
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The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

Andrew Marvell

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near.

Andrew Marvell

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Andrew Marvell

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.

Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time...

Andrew Marvell

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

Andrew Marvell

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

Andrew Marvell

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

Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Andrew Marvell

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Andrew Marvell

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

Andrew Marvell

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

Andrew Marvell

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

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 he...

Andrew Marvell

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

Andrew Marvell

To wander solitary there: Two paradises ‘twere in one To live in paradise alone.

Andrew Marvell

Author Bio

  • NameAndrew Marvell
  • DescriptionEnglish metaphysical poet and politician
  • BornMarch 31, 1621
  • DiedAugust 16, 1678
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Politician; Author