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Andrew Marvell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1621
Born: March 31
Died: 1678
Died: August 16
Poet
Politician
Satirist
Writer
Andrew Marvell
Mosaic
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Air
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Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
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The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
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What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.
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Art indeed is long, but life is short.
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Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
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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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Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.
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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.
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Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
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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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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
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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.
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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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Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns
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He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.
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So much one man can do that does both act and know.
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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.
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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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Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
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