Andrew Marvell Poems (61 Poems)
An Horation Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland (Andrew Marvell Poems)
The forward Youth that would appearMust now forsake his Muses dear,Nor in the Shadows singHis Numbers languishing.‘Tis time to leave the Books in dust,And oyl th’unused Armours rust:Removing from the WallThe Corslet of the Hall.So restless Cromwell could not ceaseIn … Continue reading
The Mower To The Glow-Worms (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late, And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate; Ye county comets, that portend No war nor … Continue reading
The Definition Of Love (Andrew Marvell Poems)
My love is of a birth as rare As ’tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing, Where feeble Hope could ne’er have flown But … Continue reading
To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell Poems)
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 Loves Day. Thou by the Indian Ganges side. Should’st Rubies find: I by … Continue reading
A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Soul O Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise A Soul inslav’d so many wayes? With bolts of Bones, that fetter’d stands In Feet ; and manacled in Hands. Here blinded with an Eye ; and there Deaf with the drumming … Continue reading
The Garden (Andrew Marvell Poems)
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the Palm, the Oke, or Bayes; And their uncessant Labours see Crown’d from some single Herb or Tree, Whose short and narrow verged Shade Does prudently their Toyles upbraid; While all Flow’rs and … Continue reading
First Anniversary (Andrew Marvell Poems)
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 … Continue reading
Eyes And Tears (Andrew Marvell Poems)
How wisely Nature did decree, With the same Eyes to weep and see! That, having view’d the object vain, They might be ready to complain. And since the Self-deluding Sight, In a false Angle takes each hight; These Tears which … Continue reading
On A Drop Of Dew (Andrew Marvell Poems)
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 incloses: And in its little Globes Extent, … Continue reading
Young Love (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Come little Infant, Love me now, While thine unsuspected years Clear thine aged Fathers brow From cold Jealousie and Fears. Pretty surely ’twere to see By young Love old Time beguil’d: While our Sportings are as free As the Nurses … Continue reading
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