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Art indeed is long, but life is short.

Andrew Marvell

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Andrew Marvell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1621
Born: March 31
Died: 1678
Died: August 16
Poet
Politician
Satirist
Writer
Andrew Marvell
Indeed
Short
Art
Long
Life

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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.
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Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
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So much one man can do that does both act and know.
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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 glade ... Such was that happy garden-state.
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And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
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Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns
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Music, the mosaic of the air.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad and these mixed everywhere.
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What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.
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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.
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Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.
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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.
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Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
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I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
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Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.
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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.
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How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.
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This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
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The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
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