Andrew Marvell Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Andrew Marvell
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“Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral Shining unto no other end Than to presage the grass's fall.”
Glowworms Quotes
Source: The Mower to the Glow-worm
“Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late; And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate.”
Glowworms Quotes
Source: The Mower to the Glow-worm
“And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.”
Boating Quotes
Source: Bermudas
“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”
Flowers Quotes
“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The nectarine, and curious peach, / Into my hands themselves do reach; / Stumbling on melons, as I pass, / Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Music, the mosaic of the air”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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 shade.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I would / Love you ten years before the flood, / And you should if you please refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews; / My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring sense / And Heaven views it with delight.”
Miscellaneous Quotes